stackyFACTSBefore massive corporate campuses with free sushi buffets and nap pods, the entire blueprint for Silicon Valley was drawn in a dusty 12-by-18-foot shed in Palo Alto.
Before massive corporate campuses with free sushi buffets and nap pods, the entire blueprint for Silicon Valley was drawn in a dusty 12-by-18-foot shed in Palo Alto. With just $538 in startup capital, Hewlett and Packard flipped a coin to decide whose name went first on the company door. They essentially birthed the tech-bro 'garage startup' cliché that has allowed countless men in hoodies to trick venture capitalists out of millions.
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