AsOf

Starbucks · founded1971-03-30

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Valid from
1971-03-30
Valid until
still holds
Published
no source on record carries a date
Recorded by AsOf
2026-11-08
Checked
2026-11-09 · its source page states the value and the date
Confidence
0.60

Sources

“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 the page says, read 2026-11-09

Cite this claim

Each form names the value, its as-of date (1971-03-30), the day you read it (2026-11-09), the claim's stable URL and id and its primary source. The URL never changes: a superseded claim stays at the same address.

Plain text
AsOf. "Starbucks founded: 1971-03-30", as of 1971-03-30. Claim clm_B839511ED3B0, https://asof.is/claim/clm_B839511ED3B0, accessed 2026-11-09. Source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292.
APA
AsOf. (1971). Starbucks founded: 1971-03-30 (as of 1971-03-30) [Record clm_B839511ED3B0]. Retrieved November 9, 2026, from https://asof.is/claim/clm_B839511ED3B0 (source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292)
BibTeX
@misc{asof_clm_B839511ED3B0,
  author = {AsOf},
  title = {Starbucks founded: 1971-03-30},
  year = {1971},
  howpublished = {\url{https://asof.is/claim/clm_B839511ED3B0}},
  note = {Claim clm\_B839511ED3B0, as of 1971-03-30; source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292},
  urldate = {2026-11-09}
}

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