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Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur who began his career as a writer and later co-founded Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl. He was later a co-owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery. Biography
Gordon Bowker was one of the three friends who started Starbucks in 1971. He was a writer and a lover of dark-roasted coffee, arts, food and wine.
Gordon Bowker was born in Oakland, California, and was just three months old when his father, Gordon Albert Bowker (1918-1943) died serving in World War II. His submarine sank in the straits of St. George off Papua, New Guinea; the ship and crew were never found.
Mar 9, 2008 · Gordon Bowker tires of telling the story about how Starbucks — the coffee store and the name — was his idea. Besides not wanting to take all the credit, Bowker has moved on.
Gordon Bowker had grown up in Seattle, enrolled at the University of San Francisco, dropped out. He bummed around Europe, where he acquired a taste for English beer. The year was 1962 and...
Mar 9, 2008 · Age: 65. Childhood: Father died in World War II, when he was 3 months old. Mother raised him in Ballard and Burien. Family: Lives with his wife, Celia Bowker, in Seattle.
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Aug 17, 2012 · In a new biography, “James Joyce,” Gordon Bowker also charts his subject’s spendthrift habits and financial fecklessness, but with greater understanding.
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