{"entity":"starbucks","name":"Starbucks","kind":"people","summary":"Starbucks' timeline holds 5 people claims from 1971 to 2025. The latest took effect on March 1, 2025.","counts":{"total":520,"by_kind":{"people":5,"money":492,"products":0,"models":0,"other":23}},"events":[{"date":"1971-03-30","until":null,"published":null,"recorded":"2026-11-08","citation":{"plain":"AsOf. \"Starbucks founder: Zev Siegl\", as of 1971-03-30. Claim clm_0BF06FFB251A, https://asof.is/claim/clm_0BF06FFB251A, accessed 2026-11-10. Source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292.","url":"https://asof.is/claim/clm_0BF06FFB251A","accessed":"2026-11-10"},"kind":"people","predicate":"founder","value":"Zev Siegl","status":"unverified","assertable":false,"why_not":"unverified","id":"clm_0BF06FFB251A","evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-09","quote":"The Three Founders 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.","url":"https://www.historylink.org/file/20292"}},{"date":"1971-03-30","until":null,"published":null,"recorded":"2026-11-08","citation":{"plain":"AsOf. \"Starbucks founder: Jerry Baldwin\", as of 1971-03-30. Claim clm_2806C5209267, https://asof.is/claim/clm_2806C5209267, accessed 2026-11-10. Source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292.","url":"https://asof.is/claim/clm_2806C5209267","accessed":"2026-11-10"},"kind":"people","predicate":"founder","value":"Jerry Baldwin","status":"unverified","assertable":false,"why_not":"unverified","id":"clm_2806C5209267","evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-09","quote":"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.","url":"https://www.historylink.org/file/20292"}},{"date":"1971-03-30","until":null,"published":null,"recorded":"2026-11-08","citation":{"plain":"AsOf. \"Starbucks founder: Gordon Bowker\", as of 1971-03-30. Claim clm_FF27A27B5823, https://asof.is/claim/clm_FF27A27B5823, accessed 2026-11-10. Source: https://www.historylink.org/file/20292.","url":"https://asof.is/claim/clm_FF27A27B5823","accessed":"2026-11-10"},"kind":"people","predicate":"founder","value":"Gordon Bowker","status":"unverified","assertable":false,"why_not":"unverified","id":"clm_FF27A27B5823","evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-09","quote":"The Three Founders 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.","url":"https://www.historylink.org/file/20292"}},{"date":"2024-09-09","until":null,"published":"2024-08-13","recorded":"2026-11-08","citation":{"plain":"AsOf. \"Starbucks ceo: Brian Niccol\", as of 2024-09-09. Claim clm_2C13D8C65227, https://asof.is/claim/clm_2C13D8C65227, accessed 2026-11-10. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000114/sbux-20250928.htm.","url":"https://asof.is/claim/clm_2C13D8C65227","accessed":"2026-11-10"},"kind":"people","predicate":"ceo","value":"Brian Niccol","status":"valid","assertable":true,"id":"clm_2C13D8C65227","evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-09","quote":"SEATTLE (August 13, 2024) – Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced that Brian Niccol has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer. Niccol will start in his new role on September 9, 2024.","url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000119312524200724/d848513dex991.htm"}},{"date":"2025-03-01","until":null,"published":"2025-11-14","recorded":"2026-11-08","citation":{"plain":"AsOf. \"Starbucks cfo: Cathy R. Smith\", as of 2025-03-01. Claim clm_CF7C706FCFC6, https://asof.is/claim/clm_CF7C706FCFC6, accessed 2026-11-10. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000114/sbux-20250928.htm.","url":"https://asof.is/claim/clm_CF7C706FCFC6","accessed":"2026-11-10"},"kind":"people","predicate":"cfo","value":"Cathy R. Smith","status":"valid","assertable":true,"id":"clm_CF7C706FCFC6","evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-09","quote":"Cathy R. Smith joined Starbucks in March 2025 as executive vice president, chief financial officer, after having served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Nordstrom, Inc.","url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000114/sbux-20250928.htm"}}],"complete":true,"legend":{"dates":"valid_from: when the claim took effect (a period figure: the day its period closed). published: the earliest day a source on the record published it (a filing's filing date, a post's date; null when no source carries one). recorded: the day AsOf first held it. A figure can take effect weeks before it is published.","citation":"citation: how to cite the row (plain: one sentence with the value, its as-of date, the claim id and URL, the day answered and the primary source; url: the claim page; accessed: the day answered). APA and BibTeX forms are on the claim page.","why_not":{"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."},"checked_by":{"page-read":"its source page states the value and the date"}}}