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Alfred Peet, the man who founded Peet’s Coffee & Tea, is DEAD. Peet’s serves what is probably the best coffee in the world, with most of its 151 locations in or near Northern California’s Silicon Valley. Peet, who was Dutch and moved to San Francisco at the age of 35, opened his first coffee shop in 1966 in Berkeley’s “Gourmet Ghetto.” Peet’s coffee is an obsession in Silicon Valley, and has for decades fueled startups and giant companies alike. (I’ve known of employees of places like Sun Microsystems, which has a Starbucks in the cafeteria, leave the campus to go buy Peet’s.) Peet inspired and trained the founders of Starbucks — founder Howard Shultz worked at a Peet’s to learn the trade.

Original post by Mike