Sip Story: Starbucks Pike Place x Black Buck
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
☕️☕️☕️☕️/☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
This is one of those books that captures you from the start, and takes you on a total roller coaster.
Mateo ’s voice is fresh and original. He writes about topics in a way that opens up our minds and hearts - all through his snarky commentary and satire.
Everyone should read this book, and pick up a “sales lesson” or two.
⭐️☕️Drink: Although I didn’t make the drink myself - there was no better drink than one of my favorite Starbuck’s picks. A Pike Place Roast. Read the description below to find out why.
💬Description:
“There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.”
22 year old Darren is the star employee at a Starbucks in the lobby of a corporate office building in the heart of Manhattan. He grew up in Bed-Stuy and graduated top of his class at Bronx Science, yet never really had the drive to live up to his full potential.
One day, he decides to convince a usual customer to change their order, not realizing he was talking to the CEO of the ‘culty’ hottest tech start up in the country - Sumwun. Before he even knows what’s really happening, he is whisked away to the thirty-sixth floor and is persuaded to join Sumwun’s sales team.
He quickly get’s re-branded as “Buck”, and endures the trials and tribulations of being the only black salesman in the entire company. The experience leads him down a path that he is not proud of, and when his personal life entirely falls apart he realizes it’s time to make a change.
📖Read the story to see how Buck not only turns his life around, but changes generations of young people of color’s lives ahead of him.
