Howard Schulz executive chairman stepping down
also "said" to be planning a presidential run-we know what that means…
>owns Seattle Supersonics
(think Mark Cuban, Mavericks owner)
something going on with these sports team owners which I am sure we will get to, soon. think: Obama super secret sports conference in Boston few months back.
It was in this climate that the Social Venture Network, a group of socially oriented entrepreneurs and investors, was created as a way to serve society by aligning business with personal values.
“It was a shift in thinking,” said Joshua Mailman, who founded the group with Wayne Silby in 1987 to bring together like-minded people for inspiration and collaboration, and to support businesses for social good. “We wanted to instigate a movement, to change the world,” Mr. Mailman said.
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*What began as a small gathering at Gold Lake Ranch in Colorado is today a coalition of more than 600 entrepreneurs, investors and nonprofit leaders, and hundreds more through affiliations with similar groups it spawned or inspired. Some of the network’s first members are well-established companies today: Bright Horizons, Ben & Jerry’s, Stonyfield Farm and Seventh Generation.
Mr. Mailman, managing partner of Serious Change, and Mr. Silby, co-founder of Calvert Funds, continue to be involved in social impact investment initiatives. Mr. Silby is also chairman of SynTao, a Beijing-based consultancy that advises Chinese companies and multinational corporations operating in China on what it means to be a corporate citizen.*
factoryx.com/ (strange site for one of the attendees in 2016)
https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/howard-schultz-starbucks-1202830014/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks-howard-schultz-to-step-down-as-executive-chairman-1528145472
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/business/dealbook/howard-schultz-starbucks-corporate-responsibility.html
<side note: wondering if they will be caught up in the internet fuckery. You can have apps turned off, wifi turned off, restricted permissions et al and walk into one of their stores to find you are automatically hooked to their google provided internet. No lie. turns your stuff right the hell on even when your permissions are turned off. happened to me on numerous occasions work traveling.