If you see the offices or photos of the most successful companies in the world and you think that they had good buildings and capital from the beginning, then change your mind because the report goes ahead and shows you the start of big companies. It’s a picture of the days that you won’t believe how companies that started out of a garage, a bedroom and a shed with a few hundred dollars are now multi-billion dollar companies.
The early days of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and other famous companies have been told.
Microsoft Corporation
Bill Gates, the world’s richest man for a long time, and Paul Allen founded it in their garage in 1975 because they had little resources to start up.
This is where he launched his first operating system and after hard work, he is at this point today. Bill Gates’ assets alone are worth more than $100 billion.
Dell Corporate
The company was started by its founder Michael Dell in 1984 when he left his university education with a dream to make something in the field of technology. A few days later, he founded the company in his garage, and today it is one of the largest technology companies in the world.
It is also among the platforms that originated from the garage. It was started by Surrey Byrne and Larry Page in 1998, and five months later, the business took off so quickly that they offered to buy the same garage for up to a million dollars.
Today the current market value of this company is 350 billion dollars.
Amazon
It was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as a small online library.
Bezos started the Amazon business out of the garage of his home in Bellevue, Washington, which expanded from books to other items and then out of the US and around the world.
And today the company is worth several hundred billion dollars and Bezos remains the richest person in the world.
Apple
The technology company was started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1975 and contracted to supply 50 units of the Apple One device locally to certain vendors which was fulfilled in 30 days. After that the company introduced more technologies and today it is the largest technology company in the world.
Hewlett Packard (HP)
The company was started in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a small room in Silicon Valley, and the two of them only had 538 dollars to introduce a few things using them and from there the chain started to this day. continues and today it is among the most successful companies in the world.
Yankee Candles
Its founder, Michael Kittridge, was just 16 when he started making candles in his garage and gave the first candles to his mother on Mother’s Day.
At a function, people saw those candles and asked to make them for them too, and two classmates joined them and then started making other things besides candles.
This company was established in 1969. There is hardly any gift shop in other countries, including the United States, where its items are not available. In 1999, Michael sold it, but it is still a huge company.
The Disney Company
It also originated in a garage in 1923 when Walt Disney, his brother Roy and uncle Robert filmed scenes for a silent film, and today it is the largest and most profitable entertainment group in the world.
Harley-Davidson Company
The motorcycle company was founded by William Harley in 1901 in an outhouse with a small wooden shed where he and his friend Arthur Davidson worked on a plan for a motorized bicycle. Work had started.
A year later, the company moved into a single room and never looked back.
Maglite
It was founded in 1950 by Anthony Majlicka and started manufacturing bulbs and flashlights with just $150 capital which later emerged as a huge company.
Metal Corporation
This big toy manufacturing company is also among those companies that originated from a garage. Founded in 1969, it did not take long for the company to grow and within a few years became the largest manufacturer of Barbie dolls and other toys.
The Lotus
It was founded in 1948 by Anthony Cullen Bruce and began manufacturing the first Lotus car in a stable near Hornsey railway station. It later emerged as a major car manufacturing company and started producing popular sports and racing cars.