Pino Audia teaches in the business school at Dartmouth.
And he researches the question, how do entrepreneurs get created?
And at some point he noticed that his students and many of his colleagues actually have an opinion about this.
They believe entrepreneurs make themselves.
You know, you head off on your own, you write a business plan, you start in your own garage.
And the garage, by the way, is not a metaphorical garage.
It is a garage, a literal garage.
Hewlett Packard started it in a garage.
Apple Computer had a garage.
Disney, the Mattel Toy Company, the Wham O Toy company.
It is about big dreams and humble beginnings and success in the face of adversity and doubters.
And also the idea that regardless of who you are, regardless of how humble your beginnings are, you can turn something.
Into an immense success story if you work hard.
And that was the point in time in which I, I got interested in the story of the garage as a myth.
A garage is a place of possibilities.
It's a place where things can get invented and a place where entrepreneurs begin.
This is from a promotional video that Hewlett Packard put together after it spent millions to buy and restore the original garage where its two founders started a company that is still one of the largest technology firms in the world.
In 1938, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard set to work to start a new company.
They had a few hand operated punches, a used Sears Roebuck drill press that.
Had just made the trip west in.