Don’t yak, but hot buttered coffee may be coming to Seattle

Jacob Nierenberg

Jacob Nierenberg Jun 21, 2025

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Don’t yak, but hot buttered coffee may be coming to Seattle</h1>
                <h2><p>Starbucks and Tully’s might have some new caffeinated competition, and surprisingly, it isn’t Dutch Bros., an Oregon favorite. A MyNorthwest piece writes that Bellevue-based Bulletproof Coffee had just secured $9 million from Trinity Ventures, with hopes of finally opening a brick-and-mortar store in Seattle. (The company’s first,</p></h2>
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            <p>Starbucks and Tully’s might have some new caffeinated competition, and surprisingly, it isn’t Dutch Bros., an Oregon favorite. A <a href="http://mynorthwest.com/11/2799176/Seattle-coffee-drinkers-may-be-sipping-yak-butter-tea-soon-enough?ref=avalancheghost.one">MyNorthwest piece</a> writes that Bellevue-based <a href="https://www.bulletproofexec.com/?ref=avalancheghost.one">Bulletproof Coffee</a> had just secured $9 million from Trinity Ventures, with hopes of finally opening a brick-and-mortar store in Seattle. (The company’s first, and so far only, shop was opened in Los Angeles this year.) Bulletproof was founded in 2009, years after founder Dave Asprey had an epiphany with a cup of butter tea on a Tibetan adventure; Asprey worked this into his recipe, which blends mold-free coffee beans with grass-fed butter and “brain octane oil,” and claims that the drink helps with both brain function and weight loss. New biohack, or just a fad diet? Regardless, Bulletproof hopes to set up shop in the Pacific Northwest soon.</p>
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Starbucks and Tully’s might have some new caffeinated competition, and surprisingly, it isn’t Dutch Bros., an Oregon favorite. A MyNorthwest piece writes that Bellevue-based Bulletproof Coffee had just secured $9 million from Trinity Ventures, with hopes of finally opening a brick-and-mortar store in Seattle. (The company’s first, and so far only, shop was opened in Los Angeles this year.) Bulletproof was founded in 2009, years after founder Dave Asprey had an epiphany with a cup of butter tea on a Tibetan adventure; Asprey worked this into his recipe, which blends mold-free coffee beans with grass-fed butter and “brain octane oil,” and claims that the drink helps with both brain function and weight loss. New biohack, or just a fad diet? Regardless, Bulletproof hopes to set up shop in the Pacific Northwest soon.

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By Jacob Nierenberg

Jacob Nierenberg is an editorial intern at Crosscut. He has lived in Washington for nearly all of his life, and still proudly identifies with the Pacific Northwest despite his relocation to Stanford U