IN CONTEXT
Start-ups
1923 Walt Disney starts making professional cartoons in his uncle Robert’s garage.
1976 The first 50 Apple computers are built in the spare room of Steve Jobs’s parents’ house. A few months later Apple moved “upscale” to his parents’ garage.
1978 Indian master brewer Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw founds biotechnology company, Biocon, in the garage of her rented house in Bangalore, India.
2004 Kevin Rose quits his television job to found Digg, a news aggregator website that attracts 38 million users a month during its peak. The “office” is his bedroom.
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