# clm_2806C5209267

subject: Starbucks (/record/starbucks.md)  
predicate: founder  
value: Jerry Baldwin  
valid_from: 1971-03-30  
valid_to: null  
published: no source on record carries a date  
recorded: 2026-11-08  
confidence: 0.60  
status: unverified  
assertable: false (unverified: Unverified: one source that is not primary, or a primary source below confidence 0.7. Asserted once a primary source or a second independent domain confirms it.)  
superseded_by: null  
last_updated: 2026-11-09  
cite: AsOf. "Starbucks founder: Jerry Baldwin", as of 1971-03-30. Claim clm_2806C5209267, https://asof.is/claim/clm_2806C5209267, accessed 2026-11-09. Source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292.  
checked: 2026-11-09 · its source page states the value and the date  

> When Gordon Bowker, Jerry Baldwin, and Zev Siegl opened Starbucks in a rented storefront near Seattle's Pike Place Market on March 30, 1971 , they had little business experience and hardly any cash.

What https://www.historylink.org/file/20292 says, word for word.

## Sources

- https://www.historylink.org/file/20292 (secondary)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37158 (secondary, Wikidata)

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