A great way for an unprofitable company to spend its VC money
A few paragraphs into a Wired article about how in tech circles, tea is the new coffee, we find this nugget:
“We’ve had the Red Bulls, coffee and everything else,” Rose says of Digg, which spends about $1,000 a month just on specialty tea for employees. Rose himself favors a cup of Pu-erh imported from China’s Yunnan province after a tough day at the office.
“It’s one of those things where you want to turn to something really natural and from the Earth  and from something that isn’t going to give you a big crash,” Rose told Wired.com. “Once you start consuming tea it makes sense: This is the best of all worlds.”
$1000/month on tea! wtf? Either they have one extremely large corporation with tea drinking employees or they are clueless.
They should buy Lipton’s at Costco and be done with it. Specialty tea for the employees?