Keep pulling the thread on Howard Schultz.
At the lowest point of the 2008 crisis, Starbucks was approximately seven months away from insolvency.
During the 2008 crisis, Steve Jobs advised Howard Schultz to fire his entire leadership team.
Within nine months of Howard Schultz's return as CEO in 2008, his entire leadership team, except for the general counsel, had departed, as Steve Jobs had predicted.
Currently, 33% of all Starbucks orders are placed through its mobile order and pay system.
Howard Schultz believes the mobile app has become Starbucks' "biggest Achilles' heel" because its convenience has eroded the in-store "third place" experience and sense of community.
Starbucks' store count in China grew from 500 in 2011 to nearly 7,000 today.
In 2017, Starbucks was opening a new store in China every 15 hours.
Starbucks experienced a very rough last quarter, with a drop in same-store sales that caused its stock price to plummet.
In 1991, one year before its IPO, Starbucks launched the 'Bean Stock' program, offering stock options to all employees, including part-time staff working over 20 hours a week.
Starbucks' 'Bean Stock' program was reportedly the first time in U.S. history that a company offered stock options to its part-time employees.
At its peak in the Pacific Northwest, the average loyal Starbucks customer visited a store 18 times per month.
Starbucks' "Bean Stock" program granted employees stock options equivalent to 14% of their base pay annually.