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Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur who began his career as a writer and later co-founded Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl. He was later a co-owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery .
Gordon Bowker was one of the three friends who started Starbucks in 1971. He was a writer and a lover of dark-roasted coffee, arts, food and wine.
Feb 15, 2017 · Gordon Bowker was born in Oakland, California, and was just three months old when his father, Gordon Albert Bowker (1918-1943) died serving in World War II. His submarine sank in the straits of St. George off Papua, New Guinea; the ship and crew were never found.
Writes educational films for a division of King Broadcasting and freelances for the original Seattle magazine, where he meets Terry Heckler, with whom he later starts an advertising agency, and...
Starbucks was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker at Seattle's Pike Place Market. During the early 1980s, they sold the company to Howard Schultz who—after a business trip to Milan, Italy—decided to convert the coffee bean store into a coffee shop serving espresso-based drinks.
Dec 12, 2017 · Gordon Bowker had grown up in Seattle, enrolled at the University of San Francisco, dropped out. He bummed around Europe, where he acquired a taste for English beer. The year was 1962 and...
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Apr 5, 2023 · Meet the Founders: Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker. This is the story of how three men, with a shared love for coffee, laid the foundation for what would become the world’s most iconic coffeehouse chain: Starbucks.
