Zev Siegl
Zev Siegl · Economics & Business
Co-founded Starbucks at Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971 with Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker, and was a director through its first decade.
28 December 1942, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Zev Siegl is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Co-founded Starbucks at Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971 with Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker, and was a director through its first decade.
Zev Siegl was born in Detroit to a Jewish family and grew up in Seattle, the son of the Seattle Symphony's concertmaster. He was a history teacher when, in 1971, he and two friends — Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker — opened a shop at Pike Place Market selling roasted coffee beans and nothing to drink. Siegl was the only one of the three who worked there full time at first, and he stayed a director through the company's first decade before selling his share in 1980.
What he and his partners started was later turned into a chain of coffeehouses by Howard Schultz; the name they chose was Starbucks.
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Co-founded Starbucks at Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971 with Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker, and was a director through its first decade.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zev_Siegl
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