An excerpt from Acorns -
7 Wildly Successful People Who Started From the Bottom
By Molly Triffin
Howard Schultz
Starbucks executive chairman and former CEO
Growing up, Schultz would have had to save his pennies to afford a grande latte. Raised by his truck driver father and stay-at-home mom in a Brooklyn housing project, Schultz described his family as “pretty much destitute.”
“I knew the people on the other side [of the tracks] had more resources, more money, happier families,” he told the Mirror. “I wanted to climb over that fence and achieve something beyond what people were saying was possible.”
Well, mission accomplished. Schultz was the first in his family to go to college. Later, during a stint working for a housewares company, he was introduced to a small coffee chain in Seattle that he eventually purchased and transformed into the Starbucks empire.
https://grow.acorns.com/7-wildly-successful-people-who-started-from-the-bottom/?utm_source=October&utm_medium=newsletter/
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