DESKPANTHER PRESS QUOTES (paste-ready)
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SHORT BIO
Jade Valore co-founded Rad Coffee in 2015 and has grown it to three locations and 38 staff. In 2021, scaling Rad to a second location, she realized she was managing the entire operation across Shopify, Wufoo and Slack, because nothing else existed for independent shop operations. She built systems to solve it for herself. Those systems became DeskPanther, launched September 8, 2026. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Food & Drink list in 2021, and her work has been featured in TODAY, Yahoo Finance, KTLA 5, Business Insider and PopSugar.

MEDIA LINKS
Forbes 30 Under 30 (Food & Drink, 2021): https://www.forbes.com/profile/jade-valore/
TODAY, Getting There series: https://www.today.com/tmrw/jade-valore-rad-coffee-using-financial-aid-start-business-t218917
Yahoo Finance (syndication of the TODAY interview): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-coffee-shop-owner-says-194312658.html
KTLA 5 (Covina segment): https://ktla.com/news/local-news/hometown-pride-quaint-covina-offers-local-flavor/
Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/rad-coffee-punk-rock-coffee-shop-2016-9
PopSugar: https://www.popsugar.com/food/rad-coffee-cereal-drinks-42420422
These cover Jade Valore and Rad Coffee. DeskPanther launched September 8, 2026.

FROM JADE VALORE (founder)
"I didn't go looking for a software idea. I was trying to run my shops."
"By 2020 I had QR codes taped around my kitchen so people could fill out a Google Form when something broke. I was paying for a text-message marketing platform to tell my own staff we were out of pumpkin. Nothing was built for a shop my size, so I built it."
"The person standing in front of the problem already knows it's a problem. I don't need technology to tell them the sink is leaking. I need to make it incredibly easy for them to tell the right person and get back to work."
"I didn't build DeskPanther around what an investor thinks restaurant software should become. I built it around what I need on a Monday morning when I'm trying to understand what's happening across my stores."
"DeskPanther removes the handoff, not the human."
"Automate the friction, not the person."
"I don't need 700 features. I need the thing I came here to do to take two clicks."

FROM THE STORES USING IT
(Store manager and shift lead inside the founder's own company; disclosed as such. Asked, not scripted.)

"It eliminates the guesswork from low-stock requests. You can see exactly when your request was sent, by who, when management saw it, and when it shipped out on its way to the shop."
- Caringten Vargo, Store Manager, 3 years

"Everything is in one place instead of multiple websites and forms. In a high-volume store, that's saved us a significant amount of time."
- Isabella Grisafe, Shift Lead, 2 years

"In my years overseeing a small team and internal operations, DeskPanther is the most organized platform introduced to our shop by far."
- Caringten Vargo, Store Manager

Media contact: Jade Valore - press@deskpanther.com
