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Oct 2020
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The Bizarre Similarity Between Starbucks...

MAD OVER MARKETING
About this episode
In this episode we speak about the bizarre series of events that Ray Kroc (McDonald's) and Howard Schultz (Starbucks) went through early on in their career and how similar it was to each other, even though they were happening in different decades altogether. 
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