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Howard Schultz, Delete Your Account
If the coffee visionary really wants to help his former company, he should stop being its underminer-in-chief.
Howard Schultz spills the tea.
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Like legions of disgruntled former employees who have come before him, Howard Schultz took to LinkedIn on Sunday to complain about what had gone wrong at his old company.
Without naming names, the former Starbucks Corp. CEO — who all but founded the coffee giant — slagged his successor, writing that after such a significant quarterly earnings miss, “there must be contrition” and that the company should “own the shortcoming without the slightest semblance of an excuse.”