Gordon Bowker Biography
Gordon Bowker is a businessman from the United States. He began as a writer before joining Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl to co-found Starbucks. He then became a partner in Peet’s Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery.
How old is Gordon Bowker? – Age
He is 80 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1943 Oakland, California and raised in Ballard and Burien, Washington.
Gordon Bowker Family
Bowker was reared in Ballard and Burien, Washington, by his mother Hazel Ringseth Bowker (1915-1991) after his father died in World War II. His grandparents were Norwegian immigrants who came to Alaska during the gold rush.
Gordon Bowker Education
He graduated from Seattle’s O’Dea High School. Bowker attended the University of San Francisco from 1960 to 1965 when he shared a room with Baldwin. Bowker pulled out only eight credits short of graduating.
Gordon Bowker Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $89 billion.
Gordon Bowker Starbucks
Bowker was an independent essayist who moved to Seattle after school at the College of San Francisco. One of Bowker’s Starbucks fellow benefactors, Jerry Baldwin, was his school flat mate. Bowker met Zev Siegl in 1962. Siegl had posted on a release board that he was driving from Seattle to New York City via San Francisco, and Baldwin joined for the ride. In San Francisco, Bowker acquainted Siegl with Baldwin and the three became companions.
Beginning in 1969, Bowker drove from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C. to buy espresso beans from Murchie’s, a tea and espresso provider. He would begin making month-to-month excursions to Canada to buy espresso for himself, as well as companions who put orders with him. This provoked Bowker to begin pondering opening an espresso organization in Seattle.
Working with companions Siegl and Baldwin, Bowker framed a business relationship with a Berkeley, California-based connoisseur espresso organization, Peet’s. Siegl was quick to connect with Peet’s proprietor and pioneer, Alfred Peet, in 1970. Peet consented to be the primary espresso provider to Bowker, Siegl, and Baldwin’s new espresso business.
On Walk 21, 1971 Starbucks opened its most memorable area at Pike Spot Market in Seattle, Washington. Bowker is credited with giving Starbucks its name, which he named after an espresso-cherishing character in Herman Melville’s clever Moby Dick. Bowker and Baldwin had recently fallen flat to send off an instructive narrative film organization called Pequod, named after the boat in Moby Dick.
Subsequent to opening a couple of Starbucks in Seattle, Bowker and the other two pioneers recruited Howard Schultz to assist the organization with its promoting procedure. Bowker took Howard Schultz to Italy to encounter their espresso culture, and subsequently Howard Schultz passed on Starbucks to begin his own café. Two or three years in the wake of beginning his own café, Howard Schultz bought Starbucks from Bowker, Baldwin, and Siegel.
