Interesting business biography. Hewlett & Packard were fundamentally decent guys and managed to hold on to that decency while creating a behemoth of a company. ( )

Having only known HP from the 90s on, and largely from a consumer perspective, I thought the early days of HP described in this book were very interesting. I had no idea that HP had such an impact on the modern workplace, flex time, open door policies, etc. I do think the author tended to paint HP, and especially Bill and Dave in a glowing light, even it was HP's golden years. Bill and Dave certainly accomplished amazing things, and set a great framework from running a business. ( original HP corporate objectives ) I'm certainly going to read more about Fred Terman now, as this book seems to indicate that besides HP, he had a lot to do with the birth of Silicon Valley and Stanford.