Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company

By Michael S. Malone

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Money

Bill & Dave is a history of Hewlett-Packard by Silicon Valley journalist Michael S. Malone, published in 2007. Malone tells how Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 and built it into one of the largest technology firms in the world. He describes the HP Way, their management philosophy of trust, openness and respect for employees, and shows how it shaped Silicon Valley before the company lost its way after they retired.

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