"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 ...

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 ...

The Seattle-based coffee giant with more than 17,000 locations nationwide has never had a store quite like the one opening this week.

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

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 ...

Founded by Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl in 1971, there are over 35,000 corporate-owned Starbucks locations worldwide, serving more than 10 million customers every day. Luckily for ...

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 ...