Thirty years after Hewlett-Packard was born, Bill reflected on the company’s earliest days. Check out his interview with author Jane Morgan as part of Palo Alto’s 75th anniversary celebration. ...

Bill Hewlett was one of the founders of Santa Clara County’s United Fund (predecessor to the modern United Way) in 1959, and Hewlett-Packard embraced the new organization from the start. Employee part ...

Lynn Tillman (second from left) and Janet Loustanou (far right) gave Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard a tutorial on the HP 70 financial calculator. Tillman, a lab development manager, was responsible for ...

Bill Hewlett (right) taught Charles de Gaulle (center, in the double breasted jacket) about Hewlett-Packard on a tour of the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto. At the time, de Gaulle was serving rou ...

Bill and Dave were both avid outdoorsmen, a shared interest that did much to forge their early friendship. Bill had a particular fondness for mountaineering.

Sports and recreation were important aspects of the annual Hewlett-Packard picnic, which began in 1942. Even Bill Hewlett got into the swing of things by participating in a baseball game that inaugura ...

Check out this interview from 1977, where several Hewlett-Packard employees describe what makes the company special. Both Bill and Dave make appearances to talk about company culture.

During an interview with author Jane Morgan, Bill explained some of Hewlett-Packard’s policies that made the company successful.

Swedish King Carl XVI visited Hewlett-Packard’s facilities at Stanford Research Park on March 13, 1984.

Bill Hewlett married Flora Lamson in 1939, Hewlett-Packard’s first year of operation. When she and Bill began dating, Flora’s friends worried that Bill’s dream of starting his own business would jeopa ...