Forty-four years ago, Howard Schultz packed up his life, loaded his golden retriever, Jonas, into his 1979 Audi, and drove cross-country from New York City to Seattle with his wife, Sheri. He was headed toward a city he barely knew, but would eventually become where he built his massive coffee empire and a brand we all know today: Starbucks.
At the time, Sheri was the “breadwinner,” with a design career, Shultz said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday. But Sept. 7, 1982, changed the course of the couple’s lives: It was the day Schultz started a new job “at a place called Starbucks.”
