Even the most successful tech companies had to start somewhere.
Many companies that are now worth billions were launched from makeshift headquarters in relatives' garages and living rooms.
Others were started in dorm rooms and coffee shops, where young coders could make use of the free Wi-Fi and plentiful caffeine.
The tech world is filled with interesting founding stories — we've rounded up some of the best ones here.
Hewlett-Packard famously began in a Palo Alto garage.
Starting your company in a garage has become something of a tradition in the tech world. HP was the first, officially launching at the beginning of 1939.
The garage and the house it's connected to are now a private museum, considered by many to be the "birthplace of Silicon Valley."
Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer in his parents' Silicon Valley home.
Steve Jobs grew up in this ranch-style home in Los Altos. In 1976, he and Steve Wozniak used the garage to assembled the first 50 Apple computers, which they then sold to Paul Terrell's Byte Shop for $500 each.
The Los Altos Historical Commission has designated the house a "historic resource," which means that any future renovations will need to be approved by the city.
Google also started in a garage.
In the winter of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin paid Susan Wojcicki $1,700 a month to work out of the garage in her Menlo Park home. They were still students at Stanford at the time.
Brin later married Wojcicki's sister Anne, though the couple recently separated.
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