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I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
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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.
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