Why I Bought a Coffee Shop (Cloud Architect to Entrepreneur)

From Cloud Architect to ALSO a Coffee Shop Owner ☕ ➡️ 🏢 — In this video, I share the full story of why I bought Mistral Café (📍 1211 Boul Rosemont - Come say Hi!), a local bakery & coffee shop in Montreal, even though my career was in cloud computing and IT architecture. 👉 Why would a tech professional pivot into the food & beverage industry? 👉 What lessons can cloud architects and software engineers learn from small business ownership? 👉 How do you evaluate and negotiate the purchase of a local business? I’ll walk you through: • My thought process for diversifying income beyond IT • How I found the café (hint: not the way you’d expect) • The financials and negotiation that brought the price down 68% • The hardest part of the acquisition (lease contracts aren't fun…) • What day one of ownership really looked like If you're a tech professional thinking about entrepreneurship, or you're just curious about what it takes to buy and run a coffee shop, this video is for you. ⸻ ☕ Follow Mistral Café on Instagram: https://go.mistral.cafe/instagram 🙋🏻 Wanna be friends? → LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilyasbakouch/