Businesses That Started In A Garage

3. Bill Gates Founded Microsoft In A Garage In Albuquerque

If you were studying at Harvard, one of the world’s most prestigious universities and someone asked you to come work in their new business, which is operating out of a garage, what would you say?

For Bill Gates, the answer was yes.

Gates was so passionate about software that he joined his childhood friend, Paul Allen, in the early 1970s and moved to Arizona to start writing code from his garage.

To many outsiders (and probably their parents), the business move might have seemed an unnecessary risk given how well the pair were doing academically. However, within a few years, Microsoft was born, and they were both multi-millionaires in their early twenties.

Looking back at his time in Albuquerque, Gates reportedly said, “There’s no better symbol for the entrepreneur than the humble garage”.