Jerry Baldwin, every mention
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Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:46 Howard Schultz There were three founders, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel, and Gordon Belker.
- ▶ 6:21 Howard Schultz And Jerry Baldwin and Zev became so interested and intrigued with what Pete's was doing, and given the fact that they were from Seattle, decided they would try and bring Starbucks coffee in the form of Starbucks to Seattle, Washington.
- ▶ 8:52 Howard Schultz I had never met Jerry Baldwin, the founder, who was the CEO at the time, and I became interested and intrigued with what Starbucks was doing and asked if I could meet Jerry.
- ▶ 9:05 Howard Schultz I met Jerry Baldwin.
- ▶ 12:09 Howard Schultz We were shipping small amounts because to Jerry Baldwin's credit, he had such a fastidious point of view about quality and freshness, and I think that had a huge impact on me.
- ▶ 21:01 Howard Schultz Sat down with Jerry and Gordon and said, holy shit.
- ▶ 21:11 Howard Schultz And they had seen it.
- ▶ 21:12 Howard Schultz They've been Italy.
- ▶ 21:14 Howard Schultz And they said, no, that's not what we want to do.
- ▶ 21:24 Howard Schultz And in two years, they finally let me open up a coffee bar.
- ▶ 22:01 Howard Schultz And after a few months or six months or so, Jerry said, I don't want to repeat this.
- ▶ 22:16 Howard Schultz I mean, I don't want to speak for Jerry.
- ▶ 22:17 Howard Schultz I have so much respect for him, but he didn't think it was clean.
- ▶ 22:20 Howard Schultz He didn't like it.
- ▶ 22:22 Howard Schultz Now between 83 and 85, Jerry Baldwin, because of his love of Pete's and his relation with Alfred Pete, had an opportunity for Starbucks to acquire Pete's Coffee Company.
- ▶ 23:08 Howard Schultz And Jerry and Gordon saying, we don't want to repeat this.
- ▶ 23:22 Howard Schultz So Jerry says, Starbucks does not want to open up coffee bars, but we will invest in Il Drenali.
- ▶ 30:12 Howard Schultz Jerry comes to me and says, Jane and I, his wife are going to move to California and we're going to keep Pete's and I'm going to sell Starbucks.
- ▶ 30:56 Howard Schultz So Jerry gave me about, I think he gave me 90 days to raise 3.8 million dollars.
- ▶ 35:02 Ben Gilbert And so did you hear from Jerry that the bid had been dropped?