Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, and entrepreneur best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan.
Schultz was born in 1952 and raised in a Brooklyn, N.Y., housing project. He received a football scholarship to Northern Michigan University, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, and after gra...
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Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, and entrepreneur best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan.
Schultz was born in 1952 and raised in a Brooklyn, N.Y., housing project. He received a football scholarship to Northern Michigan University, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, and after graduating he worked a variety of jobs until becoming manager of U.S. operations for Hammarplast.
Schultz's adventure started in 1981 when he traveled from New York to Seattle to check out a popular coffee bean store called Starbucks that had been buying many of the Hammarplast Swedish drip coffeemakers he was selling.
It took Schultz a year to convince the Starbucks owners to hire him. In 1982, he joined Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle as the Director of Marketing.
When they finally made him director of marketing and operations in 1982, he...
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