How a Poor Kid from Brooklyn Made Starbucks

Decades ago, few Americans knew what coffee was, and some thought it came from a can. But a small retailer from Seattle changed that and later became the biggest coffee house chain in the world: Starbucks.

While the company was founded by three friends, it wasn’t them who transformed Starbucks into a $100 billion-dollar company that serves 4 million drinks a day.

It was an outsider: a poor kid from Brooklyn who just graduated from high school the year that Starbucks was born.

Sources:

[Starbucks]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronaldholden/2017/12/12/how-starbucks-was-born-half-a-century-ago/#27072783f66e
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270091/coffee-house-chains-ranked-by-revenue/
https://www.investors.com/research/starbucks-stock-good-buy-now-stock-chart-strategy/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/06/07/your-daily-starbucks-latte-wont-keep-you-retiring/32651191/

[Gordon Bowker]
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/gordon-bowker-timeline-from-odea-high-to-hawaiian-guitar/
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2011/05/13/gordon-bowker-reflects-on-starbucks.html

[Alfred Peet]
https://sprudge.com/peets-biography-104696.html

[Howard Schultz]
https://www.amazon.ca/Pour-Your-Heart-Into-Starbucks/dp/0786883561
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvfnkmp-9c&feature=youtu.be
https://www.biography.com/business-figure/howard-schultz
https://www.celebfamily.com/entrepreneur/howard-schultz-family.html

[Macy’s]
https://www.visitmacysusa.com/new-york-city

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