WHEN JeffBezosleft his job infinance and moved to Seattle20years ago to startanewfirm, herented a housewith agarage, as that was where the likes ofAppleandHP had been born.
Founded by Stanford University engineers David Packard and William Hewlett in a Palo Alto, Calif. garage in 1938, for most of its history HP grew at a near exponential rate.
And if Woz, an HP employee, and Jobs, and HP admirer, didn't intentionally set out to reproduce the garage myth at Apple, they quickly did in retrospect.
The old garage has been expropriated by Fiorina not only as the new symbol of HP, but also apparently to give her the entrepreneurial spurs earned by Bill and Dave in the course of a half-century.