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Howard Schultz: belief

4 Jun 2024 Acquired Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

“I think I was physically and emotionally exhausted. Kids were getting older. I had missed a lot.”

— Howard Schultz

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Speaker
Howard Schultz
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
4 Jun 2024
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…What was your— I think I was physically and emotionally exhausted. Kids were getting older. I had missed a lot. Just think about all the things we’re doing. I had so much confidence in Orin, so it was no problem. That’s what I did. I was still engaged, but I was not running it day to day. At this point, it’s 3500 stores, the company’s doing $2.2 billion in revenue. It feels like, okay, I can get some distance. I can do other things in life. It’s going to work out. At some point, Orin transitions the CEO role to Jim Donald, which I assume you’re also very involved in working with him. What was that transition about?…

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