Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz is one of those genuinely fascinating American success stories that almost sounds too on-the-nose — a kid from the housing projects of Brooklyn who grew up to build the most ubiquitous coffee brand on the planet. What I find compelling about him isn't just the rags-to-riches arc, but the sheer stubbornness of his vision: he saw an Italian espresso bar in Milan in 1983 and basically said "I'm bringing this to America," even when nobody at Starbucks wanted to listen. His two comebacks as CEO — rescuing the company in 2008 after it had overexpanded and lost its soul, then doing a brief interim return in 2022 — show someone who genuinely can't let go of something he built from the ground up. Love him or not, he made the word "venti" part of the English language, and that's a strange kind of immortality.

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Name (English)

Howard Schultz

Name (Japanese)

ハワード・シュルツ

Reading

はわーど・しゅるつ

Born

July 19, 1953 (age 73)

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / writer / financier / businessperson

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Snake

High school

Canarsie High School

University

Northern Michigan University

• Official sitehttps://www.howardschultz.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/howard.schultz/
• Xhttps://x.com/howardschultz
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Schultz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AB%E3%83%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472330

Tags

• New York
• entrepreneur
• writer
• financier

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.