Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
4 Jun 2024 Acquired Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)
“United Airlines was paying you for coffee, I assume. I don’t know exactly how the thing went down.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 4 Jun 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)
Transcript context
…You weren’t spending any money on marketing, so. United Airlines was paying you for coffee, I assume. I don’t know exactly how the thing went down. I have to assume the Barnes and Noble is basically the same thing. Barnes and Noble was a different deal. I met Len Riggio, the founder of Barnes and Noble. Very interesting guy, very smart guy, great merchant. We just started talking. He was from Brooklyn. I was from Brooklyn. We had a natural relationship. I said, what do you think about us opening Starbucks inside Barnes and Noble, given you are the ultimate third place is what we are. And it just, again, became a natural extension of our stores.…
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