A 30 year old man in his garage created a $1.5 trillion dollar company.

He's known today as Jeff Bezos.

But he's not the only one to build a wildly successful company from a small beginning.

Time for a thread

1) "The history of how we got here is we started off in my dorm room with not a lot of resources."

Famous words spoke from the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.

Today Facebook is worth $790 billion.

Not bad for a dusty dorm room startup.

2) He dropped out of college and developed a language interpreter for the microcomputer.

Today his company employs around 150,000 people and did $143 billion in revenue in 2019.

That's Mr. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

Originally known as "Micro-Soft."

3) Two college students and a rented out garage that cost them $1,700 a month.

Though they have now stepped down, this was how Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google.

The crazier part?

The owner of the home, Susan Wojcicki, is now the CEO of YouTube.

4) In his Grandma's basement he came up with the idea of athletic wear able to wick away sweat.

Today his company sponsors athletes such as Steph Curry, Michael Phelps, Bryce Harper, and Tom Brady.

Welcome to Under Armour, founded by Kevin Plank.

5) An engine inside a bicycle?

This was new technology drew up by William S. Harley in 1903.

Despite the doubts, William and his brother constructed the first Harley Davidson motorcycle in a little Wisconsin shed.

Today the company has over 1,500 dealerships worldwide.

Garages, dorm rooms, and basements were the beginning for some of the worlds greatest companies.

Somewhere right now there is a garage startup that might be the biggest business in the world in 20 years.

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