Before they were big companies, many of the brands and huge companies we know today started small. You might think they had some office or were founded in amazing conditions, but it wasn’t like that. Instead, most of them began in dorms, garages, or environments that didn’t have the best conditions.
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Amazon
Jeffrey Bezos wasn’t always this well-known entrepreneur — and popular meme on the internet, thanks to Bo Burnham. Before Amazon was Amazon, he ran the company in his garage in Seattle in 1995. This wasn’t the fanciest setting; however, even though he started like this, Amazon is the largest internet retailer right now.
Maybe Facebook isn’t the biggest social network nowadays, but it was the one that started it all. Mark Zuckerberg saw the possibilities of a place on the internet where you can find people and have a profile. So he developed Facebook and had the idea in his Harvard dorm room in Cambridge. The rest’s history because, as you know, Facebook is one of the biggest companies in the world.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google as a project when they were students, without knowing they would change the internet. Google started in a rented garage and in three rooms in their home in Menlo Park. Right now, their headquarters are in Mountain View, California, and are some of the best offices in the world.
Microsoft
Many tech companies that are successful thanks to the internet or the computers started in garages. Microsoft is an excellent example of this; because Bill Gates and Paul Allen built their company with very little resources in, you guessed it, a garage. However, their programming skills were enough to help them built the company we know today.
Disney
Walt Disney Studios have come a long way since their beginnings. It’s now known as Disney, and it’s one of the biggest media companies. Walt and Roy Disney started filming Alice Comedies, their first big project, in their uncle’s garage in L.A. in 1923. Neither of them ever dreamt about the colossal success the company has today.
