Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur who began his career as a writer and later co-founded Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl.
[2] In 1968, Bowker wrote educational film scripts for a division of King Broadcasting while making freelance contributions for Seattle magazine.
Bowker met David Brewster at the magazine, years later funding the launch of Brewster's Seattle Weekly and writing restaurant and hospitality reviews under the pen name Lars Henry Ringseth.
[2][3] In 1971, Bowker, Baldwin and Siegl opened the first Starbucks near Pike Place Market.
[4] In 1987, Bowker and Baldwin sold Starbucks to Howard Schultz and a group of investors.