Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

5917.281 - 5943.848 Howard Schultz

No, no, we got out of the partnership, bought them out, and became company-owned. And so that was legal to do that, to be an American-owned company operating in China. Yeah, but we struggled in China for almost a decade. Lost money. There was tremendous pressure inside the company to close China. Until Belinda Wong, maybe the most valuable person in the company, from my view.