Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, Mattel, Amazon and Walt Disney all started out in garages. The Walt Disney Co. started in the garage of Robert Disney's uncle, Walt Disney, in 1923. Mattel and Mattel are the biggest doll-making companies today and phenomenal success, as are others.
Google. Possibly the company that is the most well-known for starting out in a garage is Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the company in September 1998, in the current YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki's garage.
Microsoft cofounders Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company in a garage in Albuquerque. In 1975, the pair started Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software, to develop an operating software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.
Well, it's not a garage, but when you're living in a dorm room, it's the best you have. That's precisely what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg did while attending Harvard.
After a brief period as a trainee manager at Biocon Biochemicals Limited, of Cork, Ireland, to learn more about the business, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw returned to India. She started Biocon India in 1978 in the garage of her rented house in Bengaluru with a seed capital of Rs. 10,000.
Steve Jobs's parents' garage in Los Altos, where Apple Computer was started. This is where it all started! Almost, actually, because Steve Wozniak insists Apple's first headquarters was not Steve Jobs' garage, but his bedroom.
Executive Chairperson – Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a first-generation entrepreneur and global business leader with over 4 decades of experience in biotechnology. Fueled by her passion, she started her biotech journey in 1978 from her garage in India.
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room at Harvard University. Zuckerberg left college after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to more than two billion people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire many times over.
Eric Tse, who recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton School of Finance, was gifted about $3.88 billion in his family company's shares.
Walker may hold the record for fastest ascent to billionaire's status — he joined the club in 1998, just one year after he founded Priceline.com. He fell off the billionaires list a year later after Priceline got hammered during the dot-com bust, and he left the company in October 2000.
The amount of billionaires in the UK has risen to more than 100 for the first time ever and our country now has more billionaires per capita than any other country in the world. Of those 104 billionaires they have a combined fortune of £301bn.
Arguably the most famous of these search engines is Google, a company started in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The duo rented a garage from Susan Wojcicki (now the CEO of Youtube) for $1,700 a month.
In the summer of 1923, the founder of Disney was living in a one-car garage that belonged to his uncle. He set up Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, and the company filmed the Alice Comedies, which would later inspire Disney's version of Alice in Wonderland.
As a teenager, Jeff Bezos got his first job at a McDonald's restaurant, where he was a fry cook. His salary was less than $3 per hour. After graduating from Princeton University, he worked at Fitel, an international trade start-up.
But like many successful companies, Amazon had modest beginnings—in this case, the garage of founder Jeff Bezos. In July 1995, Amazon.com opened as an online bookseller out of Bezos' Bellevue, Washington home.
Jeff Bezos is one of the most recognizable names in business. The 59-year-old tech titan worked at a hedge fund before he left to start Amazon as an online bookseller, ultimately growing it into one of the world's largest companies by revenue.
Back in the 1990s websites were alphabetized so he knew he needed the name to begin with the letter A. It was there that he came upon the word Amazon, which he felt was fitting because it referred to the largest river on Earth and perfectly represented the scale of his ambitions.
Amazon.com's success is due in part to its innovative business model, which allows customers to buy anything from books to furniture to electronics online. The company has also been successful in its efforts to expand beyond its core retail business into other areas, such as cloud computing and streaming media.
Biocon Limited is an Indian biopharmaceutical company based in Bangalore. It was founded by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw in 1978. The company manufactures generic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that are sold in approximately 120 countries, including the United States and Europe.
World's first Pichia-based rh-Insulin developed and commercialised in India. Biocon is the first company in the world to commercialise recombinant human insulin (rh-insulin), Insugen®, using a novel Pichia pastoris yeast expression system. Today, Biocon's rh-insulin is approved in over 40 countries.
Microsoft. When Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft, all they had to work with was a garage and very little resources. Using their programming skills, they built their first operating system and licensed it for $80,000. Windows was born a few years later.
