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If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Howard Schultz

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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Howard D. Schultz
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