7 Megacompanies that started out of Garages

Thats odd, of all companies they leave out Microsoft? Started in Gates garage, literally lol.

Interesting post. Thanks!

1. Google
Google’s phenomenal story started in a garage in California, with no-one knowing it would grow to become the largest network in the world.

2. Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Packard’s garage in Palo Alto could be considered not only the birthplace of HP, but also of Silicon Valley itself, with many technology startups in the area following in HP’s footsteps.
3. MagLite
While working as a machinist, he convinced a retailer to sell him a metal lathe worth $1,000 for a $125 down-payment, promising to pay the rest off monthly.

4. Amazon
Bezos left a secure job to found Amazon.com, which he dreamed up after a new U.S. law was passed, ruling that online retailers would not have to collect sales taxes in states where they didn’t have offices.


5. Mattel
After seeing the side business flourish, the firm ventured further into the toy market, creating its first musical toys. By 1948, Mattel was incorporated, with headquarters in Hawthorne, California.


6. Microsoft
Software giant Microsoft was started in 1975, in the garage of a young college drop-out called Bill Gates.


7. Apple
Arguably one of the world’s best-known modern brands, Apple was originally started by three young men, in a garage in California.

Just 10 miles from the garage where Apple was started, Stanford graduates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard launched their own company, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), in 1939 with an investment of just $538. In the 12-by-18-foot garage in back of the house they were renting, Hewlett and Packard built their first product: an audio oscillator. One of their first customers was Walt Disney Productions, which bought eight audio oscillators to use for certifying the surround sound systems installed in theaters for the film Fantasia.