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Zev Siegl was born on December 28, 1942, in Detroit, Michigan to a Jewish family. His father, Henry Siegl (1911–1997), was a concert violinist who, starting in 1956, was the concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for 26 years. Siegl grew up in New York before moving to Seattle in 1956.
Zev Siegl's family moved to Seattle from New York in 1956 when his father, the violinist Henry Siegl (1911-1997), accepted the job of concertmaster for the Seattle Symphony. In New York, Henry had played for the NBC Symphony under conductor Arturo Toscanini and served as concertmaster for George Balanchine's New York City Ballet.
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Friends since their University of San Francisco days, Gerald Baldwin, a former English teacher, Gordon Bowker, a writer, and Zev Siegl, a history teacher, were three 20-somethings who were passionate about the arts, fine food, good wine and, of course, great coffee.
Zev Siegl was born on December 28, 1942, in Detroit, Michigan to a Jewish family. His father, Henry Siegl (1911-1997), was a concert violinist who, starting in 1956, served as the concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for 26 years.
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We did what all smart entrepreneurs do – research. My attitude is that all ideas are good ideas until you find out why they’re not, and in this case we never found a roadblock. Then as we researched, something magical happened. We discovered a fellow in San Francisco named Alfred Peet, and he had something we didn’t have – an enormous background in...
Financial planning. It happened in the second year when we had the opportunity to open a separate roasting plant in an industrial facility in Seattle. So we went ahead and did it, and then we opened a second and third store. We made the classic mistake of entrepreneurs – carpe diem – and forgot to do the calculations and ran out of money. We were s...
We weren’t as calculating as that. The world of entrepreneurship didn’t exist like it does today. We didn’t know people who were starting companies. We thought we’d start a company that would roast coffee and have a couple of stores. Instead, the company dominated the Seattle coffee market within the first few years and we had six stores and 300 re...
No, by that time we had grown to six stores and had hundreds of wholesale customers. Things were going well, but I was a startup guy. I remember approaching the other partners and saying, “Look, I’ve got a really good idea”, and them saying, “Great idea but we need to focus on the core business.” I walked away with a handsome buyout. I started othe...
Not having ceased to be a student. I’m still curious and I think my openness to new ideas and strong interest in people and how they function has enabled me to help a lot of people. Last week, one of my clients whom I coach voluntarily obtained a bank loan after working on it for six months. A paid client in California is about to close an equity o...
I admire what Starbucks has become. I think it’s fascinating that I can go into one of its stores in Kuwait City, which I have done, and have the barista enthusiastically telling you about the virtue of a particular coffee. There are still similarities in today’s Starbucks to the one that we created, such as quality first. It still puts an enormous...
On the morning of March 30, 1971, Jerry Baldwin (b. 1942), Gordon Bowker (b. 1942), and Zev Siegl (b. 1942) flip on the lights and set a sandwich board outside their new coffee shop at 2000 Western A Heady aroma of fresh-roasted coffee beans wafts in the air as Starbucks opens for business and its founders pass out free sample cups of coffee to ...
Apr 5, 2023 · The journey began with three friends and business partners—Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, who met while studying at the University of San Francisco. They dreamed of bringing premium coffee to the masses and opened the first Starbucks store in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market.
