Lots of tech companies started out in a garage. Lots of people to look up to in this industry. If you want to build a great company you have to model your success after other successful companies. Apple made the computer personal and Steve Jobs was a visionary genius/psychopath and they made it work. They commercialized Berkeley Systems Distribution and Xerox PARC and they led to many of the cool things computers can do these days. By focusing on doing one thing and doing one thing well they did well. Steve Jobs lead to a marketing revolution because he had a niche in marketing and he bought a nice boat. He also went on to buy a company he later renamed to PIXAR, build NeXT workstations for $9,999.99 each, and also paid himself $1 per year just like Zuckerburg. He also owned more of Disney than he ever owned of Apple a company he co-founded which he was fired from. Hewlett Packard started in a garage as well. They used their electronics engineering skills they learned at Stanford to make their big break selling cheaper better oscilloscopes to Walt Disney and went on to manufacture everything from Light Emitting Diodes to consumer grade inkjet printers and enterprise grade network equipment, web servers, and even software like the operating system HP-UX and HP-UX Bastille which is a security hardening/lockdown software based tool here in the Silicon Valley. David Packard was a full stack engineer who went on to serve as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and formed Agilent a medical device manufacture. In 1987, Packard gave $13 million to create the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has since provided about 90% of the Institutes operating budget. In 1964, the couple founded the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 1986, they donated $40 million toward building what became the Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford University; the new hospital opened in June 1991. Packard and Hewlett made a combined donation of $77 million to Stanford in 1994 for which the university named the David Packard Electrical Engineering Building in his honor. That building is located adjacent to the William Hewlett Teaching Center. I kinda liked what HP did for the world better than Apple. Especially that whole aquarium and the childrens hospital thing they did. Jobs was a genius mostly in business. Packard was a full stack engineering genius. Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We werent interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldnt find a job, youd make one for yourself.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:12:33 +0000
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