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THE POWER OF OTHERS
Humility is not falsely denying praise or discounting your own self-worth. That’s called lying. Humility is understanding that you’re but one person with one perspective and that the world is a vast place.
—GAGAN BIYANI
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and David Packard launched their partnership as a formal company from Packard’s garage in Palo Alto, California. Thanks to the flip of a coin, the friends decided that Bill’s name would come first on the company letterhead, and the Hewlett-Packard Company was born, becoming Silicon Valley’s “first major start-up company, and one of its most successful.”1 The partners’ first product sale was to The Walt Disney Company, which bought eight of Hewlett-Packard’s audio oscillators for use ...
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