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Jerry Baldwin
American businessman and winemaker
For the American football coach, see Jerry Baldwin (American football).
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| Born | Gerald Baldwin |
| Occupation(s) | Food and beverage company founder, company chairman. |
| Knownfor | Co-founded Starbucks coffee chain |
Gerald Baldwin is an American businessman.
He and two other entrepreneurs, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl, founded Starbucks in Seattle, in He is a Sonoma Valleyvintner, and co-founder of J. Baldwin Wines.
Career
Jerry Baldwin was born to Rowland Baldwin (), a door-to-door milkman, and Patricia Brodeur Baldwin (b.
), who worked in data processing for the federal government and IBM, found his life unsettled as a teenager when his parents divorced and his mother remarried. Baldwin went to 3 different high schools before enrolling at the University of San Francisco.[1] He learned the coffee trade from Alfred Peet, whose store Peet's Coffee And Tea, was the inspirat