For those unaware, Howard D Schultz is the founder of Starbucks. He was chairman and CEO of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. In March 2023, Schultz handed the reins to his permanent replacement Laxman Narasimhan, former PepsiCo executive and pledged that he wouldn't return. When Steve Jobs told Starbucks CEO to fire his entire top leadership Talking about the incident, Schultz said that in the year 2008 there was a meeting scheduled for Starbucks and Apple around mobile order and other things.