Editing Bill Hewlett (section)

===Hewlett-Packard===
Hewlett attended undergraduate classes taught by [[Frederick Terman|Fred Terman]] at Stanford and became acquainted with [[David Packard]]. Packard and he began discussing forming a company in August 1937, and founded Hewlett-Packard Company as a partnership on January 1, 1939. A flip of a coin decided the ordering of their names.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/garage/timeline.html|work=hp.com|title=HP Garage Timeline|access-date=2010-11-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120213026/http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/garage/timeline.html|archive-date=January 20, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Their first big breakthrough came when [[Disney]] purchased eight audio oscillators designed by Hewlett which were used for the production of the film [[Fantasia (1940 film)|''Fantasia'']].<ref>{{cite web |title=HP Virtual Museum: Model 200B audio oscillator, 1939 |url=http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/earlyinstruments/0008/index.html |website=www.hp.com}}</ref>

The company incorporated in 1947 and tendered an [[initial public offering]] in 1957.<ref name=hpway /> Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were proud of their company culture which came to be known as the HP Way. The HP Way is a corporate culture that claimed to be centered not only on making money but also on respecting and nurturing its employees. Hewlett was president of the [[Institute of Radio Engineers]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/William_R._Hewlett |title=William R. Hewlett |work=IEEE Global History Network |publisher=IEEE |access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>

Hewlett was president of HP from 1964 to 1977 and CEO from 1968 to 1978, after which he was succeeded by [[John A. Young]]. He&nbsp;remained chairman of the executive committee until 1983, and then was vice chairman of the board until 1987.<ref name=stpdn87>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G61QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6983%2C144050 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard to step down at age 73 |date=February 1, 1987 |page=5C}}</ref>

A young [[Steve Jobs]], then age twelve,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/48043894|title=Steve Jobs II|website=Vimeo}}</ref> called Hewlett (whose number was in the phone book) and requested any available parts for a frequency counter he was building. Hewlett, impressed with Jobs' initiative, offered him a summer job assembling frequency counters.<ref name=Isaacson>{{cite book|last=Isaacson|first=Walter|title=Steve Jobs|year=2011|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York, NY|isbn=9781451648539|pages=xix; 534|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/stevejobs00isaa}}</ref> Jobs then considered HP one of the companies that he admired, regarding it among the handful of companies (Disney and [[Intel]] were the others) that were built “to last, not just to make money”.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/steve-jobs-itragedy/ |magazine=Wired | first=Robert | last=McMillan | title=Steve Jobs: HP Implosion Was an iTragedy | date=October 25, 2011}}</ref> [[Steve Wozniak]], co-founder of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] along with Jobs, unsuccessfully attempted five times to sell the Apple I computer to HP while working there. The early Apple computers were built with HP parts, under a legal release from HP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2005/03/28/cx_el_0328mondaymatchup.html|title=Apple Vs Hewlett-Packard|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref> Of the missed opportunity, Hewlett reportedly said, "You win some, you lose some."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/06/apple_co_founder_offered_first_computer_design_to_hp_5_times|title=Apple co-founder offered first computer design to HP 5 times|last=Ong|first=Josh|date=December 6, 2010|website=AppleInsider|language=en|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref>