Gordon bowker age

As of the past 30 seconds, I think, Starbucks' coffee sales were rocketing into space like the space shuttle Discovery. By next year the Starbucks giant expects to have heaven knows how many stores in North America. The total is already some 2, retail outlets in the U. This was on my mind when I had dinner with Gordon Bowker, a thoughtful, even scholarly fellow who seems to be some quiet kind of genius.

The coffee tastes good when he is around. Bowker, you see, invented Starbucks. Even the name is classical. Bowker named his first tiny coffee house Starbucks at Western Avenue and Virginia Street back in Starbuck was the first mate on Capt. Ahab's ship in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick. No matter. Certainly Bowker doesn't care, nor does he envy Schultz's great wealth.

After he sold the Starbucks name and three stores to Schultz, he conceived and helped found two other successful business ventures, Redhook beer and the Heckler Bowker ad agency.

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Bowker must feel - I'm guessing here - like the guy who hatched those dinosaur eggs in the movie, or the man who fashioned the "Green Monster" at Fenway Park. Starbucks is Mighty Joe Young, the pound gorilla of the caffeine culture. There is even a book out about how Bowker conceived Redhook beer.