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3 Apr 2017 Acquired The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
“Anyhow, I came up to Seattle and I will never forget the time, it was an August day in 1991 and I took a cab in from Sea-Tac.”
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…Just terrible. – was a declining business. And this guy named Bob Israel said to me, “Dan, trust me. Let’s go to Seattle.” And I kept struggling to try and understand how this could be a growth business. When I first heard and talk about it, the only frame of reference I had for coffee retailers was those Greek coffee shops on the corner in Manhattan that served those blue and white cups of coffee. Anyhow, I came up to Seattle and I will never forget the time, it was an August day in 1991 and I took a cab in from Sea-Tac. By the way, everyone in the audience might be puzzled as to how could you not check out a company. There was no internet then. So unless you knew people – You had to literally come to Seattle.…
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