Bill Hewlett

Bill Hewlett and David Packard, friends from Stanford, started their company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939, with an audio oscillator that Disney bought for Fantasia. Hewlett was the engineering inventor, Packard the organiser, and the management style they built together, the "HP Way", with walk-around management and profit-sharing, became a template for Silicon Valley. The garage is now a historic landmark.