Company Apple this year it celebrated 44 years since its establishment. Perhaps few people know the story of the humble beginnings of the company, which took place in a garage. Apple but it is not the only world-famous company that started in such places. In Silicon Valley, this is a fairly common occurrence - a group of determined weirdos lock themselves in a garage only to make billions a few years later. In this regard, Fast Company talks about the fact that the phenomenon of garage beginnings has long since left the box of a mere California cliché and turned into a kind of symbol that has the potential to attract the right capital.
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage in Menlo Park. It was 1998, and the pair of tech enthusiasts started their search engine there, without which most people today cannot imagine their stay on the Internet. The garage was part of a house owned by a certain Susan Wojcicki. Does this name sound familiar to you? Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube, which is part of Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin paid Susan $1700 a month to rent the garage (roughly 42 crowns). The building now belongs to Google. In 2018, the company had the garage renovated to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, and fans can see it on Google Maps.
Hewlett Packard
It has been more than eighty years since Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded in Packardovic garage in Palo Alto, California, Hewlett Packard. The garage was declared a historic site in 1987, and in 2000 HP purchased it for $1,7 million (equivalent to more than 42 million crowns). The co-founders developed, for example, in their home garage audiooscillator model 2000A. This piece is nakonec became HP's first breakthrough device, and was also purchased by Disney for its film Fantasia. The garage where HP started is sometimes called the "cradle of Silicon Valley."
Microsoft
A company was also founded in the garage Microsoft. Its co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen in a garage in Albuquerque were active in the very beginnings Microsoftu, but the Sundowner Motel served as a temporary base for the company. For example, the first version of the BASIC programming language was written here. In 2013, the motel was transformed into a place for affordable housing. The Sundowner Motel first opened its doors to guests in 1960, and included a casino, nightclub and restaurant. The glory days of the Sundowner Motel were over when Interstate 1970 was completed in 40.
Amazon
Jeff Bezos was also starting up his company Amazon in "home conditions". Bezos and his then-wife MacKenzie Bezos rented a house in Bellevue, Washington, in 1995 - the monthly rent was approximately 22 thousand crowns. Bezos later stated in an interview with the newspaper The Wall Street Journalthat he chose the house partly because it included a garage, and he allegedly wanted to boast of similar beginnings to those of the aforementioned Hewlett company Packard and many other big names. The house sold last year for $1,5 million, but it wasn't the original building Bezos lived in - it was renovated in 2001 and the garage looks completely different than it did in 1995.
