In Mrs. Green's interview with Nikhil, she learns that he and his friend and now business partner Alejandro Velez, were only a few months away from graduation at UC Berkley when they heard that they could grow gourmet mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. Inspired by the idea of turning waste into fresh, local food, they experimented in Alex’s fraternity kitchen ultimately growing one test bucket of oyster mushrooms. With the ONE bucket and support from their community, they made a life changing decision to forgo their investment banking and consulting job offers and became full-time urban mushroom farmers.