# Starbucks founding date entity: /record/starbucks.md predicate: founded page: /record/starbucks/founded as_of: 2026-11-11 cite: AsOf. "Starbucks founded: 1971-03-30", as of 1971-03-30. Claim clm_B839511ED3B0, https://asof.is/claim/clm_B839511ED3B0, accessed 2026-11-11. Source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292. As of November 11, 2026, Starbucks's founding date on the AsOf record is March 30, 1971, dated March 30, 1971, from 2 secondary sources (historylink.org and history.com). 1 claim on Starbucks's founding date, 1 open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted. ## Current founding date What the record asserts on 2026-11-11. - [Starbucks](/record/starbucks.md) | founded | 1971-03-30 | valid 1971-03-30 to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_B839511ED3B0](/claim/clm_B839511ED3B0.md) sources: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-30/first-starbucks-opens-seattle-pike-place-market, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37158 ## Every dated value One claim per line, oldest first. Superseded claims stay visible. - [Starbucks](/record/starbucks.md) | founded | 1971-03-30 | valid 1971-03-30 to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_B839511ED3B0](/claim/clm_B839511ED3B0.md) sources: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-30/first-starbucks-opens-seattle-pike-place-market, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37158 ## Questions this record answers ### What is Starbucks's current founding date? March 30, 1971, dated March 30, 1971, from 2 secondary sources (historylink.org and history.com). The record asserts this claim as of November 11, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.80). ## Read on - This page: /record/starbucks/founded (markdown: /record/starbucks/founded.md) - Entity twin: /record/starbucks.md ยท timeline: /timelines/starbucks.md - Every company's founding date: /facts/founded.md --- AsOf is a temporal fact ledger: a structured, dated, sourced record of what is true and what changed, built for AI retrieval.