Silicon Valley garage Concepts

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words

do pranks like you do, and he’s also into building electronics like you are.” It may have been the most significant meeting in a Silicon Valley garage since Hewlett went into Packard’s thirty-two years earlier. “Steve and I just sat on the sidewalk in front of Bill’s house for

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

by John MacCormick and Chris Bishop · 27 Dec 2011 · 250pp · 73,574 words

a while. I think we can do better than that. —LARRY PAGE (Google cofounder) Architecturally speaking, the garage is typically a humble entity. But in Silicon Valley, garages have a special entrepreneurial significance: many of the great Silicon Valley technology companies were born, or at least incubated, in a garage. This is not

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta · 1 Jan 2009 · 532pp · 139,706 words

the nature of the new technology. He just knew that innovation was usually the enemy of established companies. As it happens, in 1998, in a Silicon Valley garage, Bill Gates’s nightmare came alive courtesy of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Page and Brin had met three years before, at orientation for incoming

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

by Steven Levy · 18 May 2010 · 598pp · 183,531 words

analogy for a “chip-to-machine” existence. The West Coast Computer Faire had been the resounding first step of hardware hackers making their move from Silicon Valley garages into the bedrooms and dens of America. Before the end of 1977, the other shoe dropped. Megamillion-dollar companies introduced computer-terminal combinations requiring no

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words

oversaw armies of software engineers at Microsoft Corporation, but now works from a cramped office in South Seattle. The four-room shop might be any Silicon Valley garage start-up. There are circuit boards and computers strewn in every direction, and there are robots. Many of them are toys, but several look suspiciously

The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice

by Julian Guthrie · 31 Mar 2014 · 428pp · 138,235 words

and began to map out what needed to be done to compete for the America’s Cup. It was Oracle Racing 1.0, and the Silicon Valley garage was a seaside shack. In Valencia, Ehman jumped out of the taxi and buzzed Sim’s apartment. Burns was on his way, and Melinda Erkelens

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

by Temple Grandin, Ph.d. · 11 Oct 2022

will make it work. Steve Wozniak was the perfect partner for Jobs. Walter Isaacson writes, “It may have been the most significant meeting in a Silicon Valley garage since Hewlett went into Packard’s thirty-two years earlier.” Wozniak wrote in his book that all he wanted to do was design circuits and

Dealers of Lightning

by Michael A. Hiltzik · 27 Apr 2000 · 559pp · 157,112 words

ahead (while paying Xerox royalties). A company, say, like Apple. The idea was not wholly implausible. Apple was coming on strong. Started in the proverbial Silicon Valley garage by Jobs and his high school classmate Steve Wozniak, Apple had successfully negotiated the transition in its product line from kit versions of Woz’s

The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

by Blake J. Harris · 19 Feb 2019 · 561pp · 163,916 words

sold hundreds of thousands of these play-on-your-TV devices on the QVC. “Ms. Ellsworth is demonstrating that the spirit that once led from Silicon Valley garages to companies like Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer can still thrive,” cheered a 2004 profile in the New York Times. That can-do spirit led

Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet

by Charles Arthur · 3 Mar 2012 · 390pp · 114,538 words

where, or what, or who; as Auletta noted, ‘He just knew that innovation was usually the enemy of established companies.’1 Why a garage? Because Silicon Valley garages are famous breeding grounds for innovative, disruptive companies that could react faster to conditions and use the newest technology, buoyed by venture capital funding and