July 2018: Luke, Isaac and Brody celebrate the start of a new partnership after Kua purchases one tonne of coffee.

January 2019: 6 friends move into a sharehouse to start Kua together. This is the original storage and operations shed.

March 2019: A fortnightly meeting in the front garden.

July 2019: Dinnertime strategy session. There was a rule of "no coffee talk" after 8pm, but the line between work and home became very blurry.

August 2019: A late night discussion ends in tears. From this moment forwards, Kua has maintained a strong emphasis on team wellbeing.

September 2019: Global Climate Strike. One of Kua's four values is 'Act on Purpose'. It reflects moments like this.

December 2019: Our third visit to Uganda. Mon, Hamish and Darcy debate new sourcing partnerships while travelling between coffee farms.

December 2020: As part of a partnership with UNSW, we borrowed a 360 Virtual Reality Camera to document Kua's supply chain. Not an inconspicuous object.

December 2019: The phrase WFW (working from waterfall) is coined.

December 2019: Hamish sampling the quality of various raw green beans.

January 2020: The founding team celebrates at The Commons, Sydney.

May 2020: Nearly six months after Kua's trip to Uganda, the coffee lands in Sydney.

July 2020: Mars Dimackie, specialty coffee roaster, Kua friend and Kua mentor working with Hamish.

September 2020: Since launching, the Kua team have been signing emails with 'Happy Days'.

October 2020: Kua's quarterly 'Strategy Day'.

October 2020: Darcy and Bri set their pay, live on the Kua Podcast.

November 2020: Digby (Brand and Design) in the Kua shed.

December 2020: Lachie, one-half of the 'Carbon Crusaders' team, pours over finacial data to measure and report on Kua's carbon footprint.

February 2021: The Randwick Sustainability Hub. A Re-Use parter who have been transforming used Kua coffee grounds into rich compost for two years.

Pre-COVID: Workplace workshop, an important part of the Kua service. We pose two questions to Kua coffee drinkers: 'where does it come from? / where does it end up?'

Pre-COVID: The effort of lugging a Virtual Reality camera to Uganda pays off.

April 2021: Mid pandemic. Visiting coffee farms in Uganda is out of the question, so we run the CameraSwap project. Here, we shoot the explainer video.

March 2022: Bri presents Kua as a case study at the World Policy Forum (and wins second place).