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Gerald Jerry Baldwin is an English American businessman who along with Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl founded Starbucks in Seattle in 1971.Baldwin learned the coffee trade from Alfred Peet whose store Peet’s Coffee & Tea was the inspiration for Starbucks. Starbucks purchased roasted coffee beans from Peet’s during its first year of operation. In 1984 Peet’s was put up for sale; Baldwin led a group of investors that purchased the company. In 1987 he sold his interests in Starbucks.