Howard Schultz Offered Tsai Any Job at Starbucks to Prevent Her Departure
Vicky Tsai · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai · Jul 13, 2020 · at 17:18
Tatcha founder Vicky Tsai recounts leaving Starbucks in 2008 to join a sustainability startup in the Bay Area.
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“Howard Schultz found out, and he called me on my mobile phone and asked me to come in and meet with him. So I went back to his office, and it was the week that my furniture was, you know, already on a truck to San Francisco. And he kept on being like, why? Why would you go? And tell me what you want to do, and tell me what job you're interested in.”
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