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How do I update a page? Election results. Privacy policy About Ballotpedia Disclaimers Login. Businessman who became founder, chairman, and CEO of Starbucks. According to Astrologers, Howard Schultz's zodiac sign is Cancer. Howard D. Fred Schultz was a truck driver. Howard has two siblings. Schultz grew up in the Canarsie public housing projects. According to Schultz, his family was poor. He had a son and a daughter with his wife, interior designer Sheri Kersch Schultz.
Schultz born July 19, is an American businessman. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer CEO of the Starbucks Coffee Company from to , and then again from to Schultz also owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from to Schultz graduated from Canarsie High School in He got his start selling coffee drip machines and noticed a Seattle coffee place called Starbucks was buying many of them.
After graduating Schultz stayed in Michigan and worked at a ski lodge for a year. In , Schultz married Sheri Kersch with whom he has two children. At that time, Starbucks had only been around for 10 years and didn't exist outside Seattle. The company's original owners, old college buddies Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker and their neighbor, Zev Siegl, had founded Starbucks in The three friends also came up with the coffee company's ubiquitous mermaid logo. But I knew I was in a special place, and the product kind of spoke to me.
I met the founders of the company, and really heard for the first time the story of great coffee I just said, 'God, this is something I've been looking for my whole professional life. A year after meeting with Starbucks' founders, in , Howard Schultz was hired as director of retail operations and marketing for the growing coffee company, which, at the time, only sold coffee beans, not coffee drinks.
Early on, Schultz set about making his mark on the company while making Starbucks' mission his own. In , while traveling in Milan, Italy, he was struck by the number of coffee bars he encountered. An idea then occurred to him: Starbucks should sell not just coffee beans but coffee drinks. Not only the romance of coffee, but And the connection that people had to coffee—the place and one another," Schultz recalled. Schultz's enthusiasm for opening coffee bars in Starbucks stores, however, wasn't shared by the company's creators.
We even, at one point, had a nice, big espresso machine behind the counter. But we were in the bean business. It was an instant success, bringing in hundreds of people per day and introducing a whole new language—the language of the coffeehouse—to Seattle in But the success of the coffee bar demonstrated to the original founders that they didn't want to go in the direction Schultz wanted to take them.
They didn't want to get big.
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