Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard — the company that, with David Packard, created the management philosophy of 'The HP Way' and effectively founded Silicon Valley as a technology culture.
The HP Way: Hewlett and Packard invented a management philosophy that influenced virtually every significant technology company that followed — profit sharing, decentralized management, management by walking around (MBWA), treating employees as trusted adults, investing in R&D for its own sake. The HP garage (Palo Alto, 1939) is the symbolic origin of Silicon Valley as a culture of founder-engineers building technology companies. Bill Hewlett's technical contributions (the audio oscillator sold to Walt Disney for Fantasia) demonstrate the engineer-entrepreneur archetype.
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