TRABUCO CANYON, Calif.—At the start of 2020, Azerone Perkins was looking forward to his best year ever. He’d just been given a company car to use, along with a hefty performance-based raise, by a Southern California company that provided cold-brew coffee to tech companies and theme parks. Business was booming, and the future looked bright for the 32-year-old former Vanguard University track star and El Toro High School class president. Then came the pandemic. “For a natural cold-brew coffee company that supplied restaurants and offices and theme parks, our business got hit super hard,” Perkins told The Epoch Times. “I was working six days a week. When the pandemic hit, I was laid off.” The respite gave Perkins time to contemplate his future. “I was praying to God and trying to figure everything out, and then it dawned on me. I had this impression that I know a lot about coffee …