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…Seriously, what is the point? So, listeners, before we dive into the show, a couple of things I want to cover. One, if you’re new to the show, we’ve got a great Slack community. So we’ve got over 500 people discussing mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, tech news, really anything that people want to create rooms for, so you can learn more about that at Acquired.fm and join. Hit us up on Twitter, @acquiredfm. David, can you introduce us to our guest today? Yeah. So as Ben mentioned, we are covering the landmark Starbucks IPO today and we are lucky to be joined by Dan Levitan who is the managing partner and cofounder along with the soon-to-be former and original CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, of the consumer-only venture capital firm Maveron. Dan and Howard started Maveron in 1998. Since then, Dan has invested and served on the boards of many successful companies including Zulily, Trupanion, Potbelly, and Drugstore.com. Dan and Maveron are great early-stage VC investors and investors both in PSL where Ben works and co-investors with many of the companies I work with at Madrona, and really delightful folks to work with. But today, we’re actually going to be talking about Dan’s days before Maveron when he was an investment banker in New York at a firm called Schroder Wertheim & Co. And he met a crazy entrepreneur from Seattle who was a hell of a coffee company that was named after a character in Moby Dick, and Dan would go on to serve as that coffee company’s lead investment banker on their IPO. And that's the story we’re here to tell today. So thank you, Dan, for joining us. Thank you for having me, guys.…

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