On a street of pristine California Craftsmans, the garage at 367 Addison in Palo Alto looks as modest as a Rockwell painting. But this cedar-shingled structure sparked a revolution, one whose reverberations can be felt in cars such as the BMW i3 we’ve glided to the curb. Silicon Valley itself—the global ground zero of innovation, start-ups, tech giants, venture capitalists, billionaires, and fortune seekers—traces its birth to this humble one-car garage. It’s where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started Hewlett-Packard in 1939, deciding the company’s name with a coin toss and using the rented home’s garage to develop and build its first products, including the Model 200A audio oscillator. Disney bought eight 200B versions, at $71.50 a pop, to test sound equipment at special theaters that showed “Fantasia.” The young HP was on its way. Garage Rockers: Today’s Silicon Valley was born on Addison Street in Palo Alto, where Hewlett-Packard was founded in a rented home. The creative destruction that followed is history, from Microsoft’s Gates and Apple’s Jobs to Google’s Brin, Amazon’s Bezos, and Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Musk, whose Tesla Model S has already displaced the likes of, well, BMW as the top-selling luxury model in the area’s wealthiest… Read full this story
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