Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard.
Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple's birthplace.
Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago, in flight from Chicago's winters, he settled here and began making cardiovascular catheters and other medical instruments. One thing led to another, as things have a way of doing when the government stays out of the way, and although Cook died last year, Cook Medical, with its subsidiaries, is the world's largest family-owned medical devices company.
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