Other of the strongest corporations in the world were not founded in tall corporate buildings or in billion-dollar laboratories. They started in humble garages, where ambitions, creative innovations and determination molded simple concepts into world-changing industries that transformed technology, entertainment, and trade. The garage has been turned to be an icon of innovation as it is the place where imagination collides with persistence. Numerous business people with minimal capital and massive ambitions set the stage of corporations that currently dictate the daily lives, workplaces, communication, and shopping of billions of people worldwide.
Apple
The foundation of Apple was in 1976 when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak began assembling the first Apple computers in the small garage of the family house in Los Altos, California. What began as a hobby between two college friends soon expanded into one of the most powerful technological organizations in the world, transforming the personal computing, smartphones, and digital ecosystems.
Amazon
In 1994, Jeff Bezos started Amazon in the garage of his rented home in Bellevue, Washington, where he was initially using it to pack and ship books as ordered online. That small start would become an international e-commerce powerhouse that would change how people shop online, cloud computing, logistics, and the entire manner by which people purchase nearly everything.
Google was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as graduate students but the first actual headquarters of the company was a garage rented in Menlo Park, California in 1998. It was out of that little office that they enhanced their technology of searching engines that are now the ultimate pathways through which individuals peruse information on the internet.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard was started in 1939 in a small garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard and nowadays is commonly referred to as the place where Silicon Valley started. They started with their initial product which was an audio oscillator utilised by sound engineers and later the company expanded to become a leader in computing, printers as well as enterprise technology worldwide.
Disney
Walt Disney and his brother Roy had started off as an early animation unit in the garage of the house where their uncle lived in the 1920s in Los Angeles, before becoming one of the powerhouses of entertainment across the globe. It is that modest creative studio that was the first step towards a studio that would later develop legendary characters, animated movies as well as theme parks known all over the world.
Harley-Davidson
In 1903, William Harley and Arthur Davidson constructed their first motorized bicycle in a small wooden shed which was their workshop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This project would later lead to Harley-Davidson, a motorcycle company that was later identified as the symbol of American engineering, culture and freedom on the open road.
Mattel
In the year 1945, Mattel toy company was founded by Howard Matson and Elliot Handler who began by making picture frames and dollhouse furniture in a small garage workshop in Southern California. Such experimentation with toy design would later result in classic toy designs such as Barbie and Hot Wheels which defined generations of play in childhood.
Microsoft
During its inception in the late 1970s, Bill Gates and Paul Allen were working on software in temporary/garage workstations and small home arrangements, in the development of early personal computers. Their juvenile enterprise was soon to be the powerhouse in the field of operating systems and productivity software, operating millions of computers worldwide.
Maglite
In the 1950s, Anthony Maglica started making flashlight parts in a small garage house in Los Angeles, and machined items by hand, gaining a reputation as labour-intensive. With time his business expanded into Mag Instrument, the manufacturer of the Maglite flashlight brand, popularized among professionals and emergency responders as well as consumers all over the world.
