My Take
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.
Overview
Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006. Schultz began working at Starbucks in 1982.
1. Profile
- 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 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Snake
- Origin
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- entrepreneur / writer / financier / businessperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Canarsie High School
- University
- Northern Michigan University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.