Jeff Brotman, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Jeff Brotman comes up
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:26 Ben Gilbert Did you ever speak with Jeff Protman or Jim Senegal or any of those guys about this concept?
- ▶ 1:08:36 Howard Schultz First, Jeff Brotman invested in Starbucks in the round to buy Starbucks.
- ▶ 1:08:46 Howard Schultz That's when I met Jeff for the first time.
- ▶ 1:08:48 Howard Schultz Jeff became a board member of the early imprinting of Starbucks, and clearly a mentor, mentor of mine, and then he introduced me to Jim Senegal, and so
- ▶ 1:09:02 Howard Schultz There were many moments of me sitting with Jeff and Jim, including the huge decision to put Starbucks coffee in Costco, which there was a revolt inside the halls of Starbucks saying, no effing way.
- ▶ 1:09:23 Howard Schultz And Jeff and Jim took me to a parking lot
- ▶ 1:10:14 Howard Schultz So Jeff and Jim were instrumental in so many things, and were so kind to me as a young kid.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:55 David Rosenthal Another Bernie, this time a Seattle retailer named Bernie Brotman, and his son Jeff, call up Saul.
- ▶ 1:08:28 David Rosenthal And in the same echo of what happened, gosh, 30 years earlier, Bernie and Jeff say, okay, we understand.
- ▶ 1:09:04 David Rosenthal Jeff Brotman cold calls Price Club's head of merchandising and says, hey, my family and us, we're starting up a Price Club clone up in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:10:00 David Rosenthal Jeff calls Jim, convinces him to come up to Seattle.
- ▶ 2:50:44 David Rosenthal Yeah, so Jim and Jeff Brotman, before he tragically too young passed away a few years ago, they would talk about this, especially Jeff and the Brotmans being Seattle retailers.