"We were thinking of all kinds of names and came desperately close to calling it Cargo House, which would have been a terrible, terrible mistake," co-founder Gordon Bowker told the Seattle Times.

Starbucks founders –Gerald Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl (pictured) — had wanted the “company’s name to suggest a sense of adventure, a connection to the Northwest and a link to ...

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. After co-founding ...

In the 1970s, the Seattle-based Heckler would brainstorm ideas for the new coffee company that his creative partner, Gordon Bowker, wanted to launch. It was Heckler who came up with the name ...

Gordon Bowker is the author of "George Orwell," a biography of the writer, and has written articles for the the Daily Beast, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. With "alternative facts ...

However, he failed to win over co-founders Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker to his vision for artisanal coffee beverages as a medium for social interaction, since they preferred to preserve the ...

Starbucks co-founder Gordon Bowker says he and his partners almost named their coffee shop Cargo House. In an interview with the Seattle Times, he admits this would have been a “terrible ...

Starbucks, American coffee company, has run through several CEOs since it first went public and has experienced its fair ...

Founders Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl sought to open up a coffee store. They knew they wanted it to reflect both the culture of the Northwest and the seafaring coffee traders who ...

Seattle magazine’s July 1969 issue featured a first-person essay by writer Gordon Bowker who, from 5 p.m. until 3 a.m. five days a week, drove a cab. The story is rife with descriptions of ...

The Society of Authors (SoA) has announced shortlists for the 2025 Awards that 'celebrate and reward the work of a huge range ...