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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Techno Trivia
The first technology corporation to move into California’s Silicon Valley was Hewlett-Packard, in 1938. Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney Studios for use in the making of Fantasia.
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Don't it make ya wonder? so many of us are not rich simply because we didn't have a garage to brainstorm in?
I am reading Outliers by Malcom Gladwell ( Blink) who isleft that out in his study to determine why certain types of people are successful; he's fundamentally nurture over Nature, that simply a high IQ doesn't predetermine great contributions. but now you mention it, maybe having a garage was a big part of it.
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