HP Garage — Attraction in Palo Alto

When you hear company X was founded in a garage, you imagine a hole in the wall with a spare tire kit lying around. Well, this place is quite elegant for a garage, to be honest. I’d live in that garage if I was from 1939. I mean, this is Palo Alto. Nowadays, this garage would fetch something like, what, 2,300$/month with a shared bathroom?

Anyway, if you’re interested in tech, you should pass by this place some time. It’s a very interesting historical location, and it will be even more interesting in the future.

It’s really incredible what followed from this place, and seeing the beginning of this behemoth industry with its incredible innovation and scale makes you think how big ideas are born from humble, yet ambitious beginnings. This is a Stanford professor and his students we’re talking about, and it’s not this part that is particularly humble, but rather it’s the idea itself: a start-up in a garage developed an audio oscillator and started up the culture of Silicon Valley in its entirety. Being in the right place at the right time...

It was truly meaningful to visit the HP Garage for the first time, especially after starting my journey with HP 18 years ago. Back then, knowing the incredible heritage of the company and growing up reading about Hewlett and Packard was deeply inspiring. Being able to visit this iconic place after all these years brought back memories of that initial excitement and reminded me how innovation often starts in the most unexpected places. Thank you, for keeping this amazing place intact! 🚀 #HPGarage #Innovation #SiliconValley

Edit: I didn’t mentioned, I’m from Costa Rica, HP was one of the first big American companies...

HP was founded here in 1939. It is also known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. The garage holds historical significance as the place where Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and...