Starbucks Has A Role And A Meaningful

When You Start A Company, It's A Singular Focus. You Have The Wind At Your Back.

When I First Discovered In The Early 1980s The Italian Espresso Bars In My Trip To Italy, The Vision Was To Re-create That For America - A Third Place That Had Not Existed Before. Starbucks Re-created That In America In Our Own Image; A Place To Go Other Than Home Or Work. We Also Created An Industry That Did Not Exist: Specialty Coffee.

Customers Have Different Need States And Life Experiences.

Overnight The Digital Age Had Changed The Course Of History For Our Company. Everything That We Thought Was In Our Control No Longer Was. But Within A Year We Had Invested In Social Media And Digital Experts. Now Starbucks Is The Number One Brand On Facebook.

I'm Much More Concerned About America Than The Democratic Party.