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82. Fiona Co Chan (Founder & CEO, Youthforia) probably won’t be getting papped at Starbucks

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Is Paparazzi a Verb?

The initial concept for Starbucks, or at least part of Howard Schultz's, the founding CEOs origin story of it does have to do with him spending time in Italy and observing coffee culture there. So I think that's where the idea for the names came from was just like, oh, we'll make it Italian, which I also feel is a very American thing to do to make something fancier. The word papped has made its way into your vernacular. This is paparazzi. Does a verb? Is that what that is? Yes. Oh, probably.

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