The three technology giants HP, Microsoft, and Apple all started in a small garage! HP was started by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939 in a garage in Palo Alto (California, USA). Steves Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computer in Los Altos (California) in 1976. And finally, Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen (also 1975) in Boston (USA).