Howard Schultz
Businessman and Starbucks leader
Howard Schultz is an American businessman who led Starbucks as chief executive and chairman. He wrote Pour Your Heart Into It with Dori Jones Yang.
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American Born 1953 in Brooklyn, United States
About Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz was born in Brooklyn on July 19, 1953, and graduated from Northern Michigan University with a degree in communication. He began working at Starbucks in 1982, then left to open a coffeeshop called Il Giornale, which merged with Starbucks in the late 1980s. He served as Starbucks chief executive from 1986 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2017, and was interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. He took the company public in 1992. He was also the owner of the SuperSonics, a Seattle basketball team, between 2001 and 2006, and he started the Schultz Family Foundation, which supports military veterans and works on youth unemployment. Pour Your Heart Into It, written with Dori Jones Yang, was published in 1997 and tells the story of how Starbucks was built. His later book Onward, written with Joanne Gordon, came out in 2011.