"And the time would start the moment we got in the car because then we'd be giggling, 'Do you want to do underwear first or shall we get a coffee?'" Sorting through money-off vouchers, planning their day.
Everyone else was quiet in that it's-too-early-no-coffee sort of way.
As chief executive of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), which reported 10%-or-better earnings growth for 50 consecutive quarters after he took charge, he was a two-packs-a-day, hamburger-and-eggs, extra-sugar-in-the-coffee sort of guy.
That could involve anything from organising a diary and fetching coffee to sorting out dry cleaning.
I tend to just sit at the coffee table, sort of watching TV and sketching at the same time.
As the years went on, he graduated to coffee, a sort of latte which we called a Mr Freud latte, being even milkier than normal.
For caffeinated gallery- and boutique-hopping, gritty-but-hip Vesterbro is the place, home to record and coffee shop Sort and art, craft and design emporium Designer Zoo.
And producing gourmet coffee, the sort that will command top dollar in the United States, offers Rwanda a way out of the falling coffee prices caused by skyrocketing production that has affected all the world's producers since the mid-1990's and impoverished the peasants who engage in the backbreaking work of coffee cultivation.
During their meeting at 960 Fifth Ave . Puccio, who was wearing "a sport coat, tie, something like that," joined von Bu low in a breakfast room where they ate "just croissants, coffee, that sort of thing". They were served not by a butler or maid (they have been let go) but by Hungarian-born Andrea Reynolds, who shares the apartment with von Bu low.
It offered an array of quirky concoctions, including the cragel, a cross between a croissant and a bagel, which created some buzz in 2014, but mostly it sold simpler fare: traditional bagels with cream cheese, egg bagel sandwiches, coffee — the sort of thing locals picked up on their way to work.
In those areas where many are underserviced by the existing financial infrastructure, "hybrid cultures" have been innovating localized fintech services -- such as a CoinStar-like coffee bean sorting and credit system tailored for farmers in the Congo, she said.
