Samit Bin Salam
When I was in England for my Bachelor's degree in Architecture & Civil Engineering, I got entrenched in their coffee culture. There was an established student culture, where we went to café's nearby the university during our break time to do our course work or brainstorm ideas. While going there regularly, I realized there were no café's that were upscale and only focused on coffee back home. It was the early 2000 and coffee culture in Bangladesh was almost Non-existent. Hence I wanted to establish something similar to those Café's in England that solely focused on coffee. That was my first reason for opening Kiva Han. At the same time I read an article on "The Economist" about Commodities. It was mentioned there that Coffee was the 2nd most traded commodity in the world after Oil, which I had no idea about since I was a student of architecture. From reading a random business article, the inception of the idea occurred and I started thinking of doing something with coffee when I go back to Bangladesh.
