Bill Hewlett

When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs was in high school, he once picked up the phone and dialed Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) co-founder Bill Hewlett and asked for leftover electronic parts, a cold call that unexpectedly turned into his first real job. Cold Call That Changed Young Steve...

Technology companies are often synonymous with Silicon Valley or other tech hubs, but many of the founders of the major publicly traded tech companies come from a place that hasn't exactly been known for innovation in the last 30 years: Detroit. Encompassing the entire Metro Detroit area as...