David Packard

David Packard 

David Packard is a very iconic name when it comes to the Computer and IT business. He becomes a billionaire by co-founding Hewlett-Packard a technology corporation in 1939.He began his career by building custom electronic equipment in a one-car garage in Palo Alto. The name of company was decided to fix as HP by flipping of a coin. Packard begin his business by made and sold a sound oscillator to Walt Disney’s Fantasia and continue his production by producing the radio, radar, sonar aviation and nautical devices during the Second War World.

When we look back about his education background, Packard has showed an early interest in science and engineering, and in high school excelled in schoolwork, sports, and leadership. In 1930, Packard went back to Stanford University and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. It was the place where Packard met with Bill Hewlett, with whom he shared dreams of someday starting a business. Other than that, Stanford University is the place where Packard finds his life partner, Lucile Salter.

Packard managed to make the HP as the biggest producer of electrical measurement and testing devices through Packard’s role as a brilliant administrator and through Hewitt’s various technological advances. These become the main key to be the producers of computers, calculators, laser printers and inkjet printers.

HP became a corporation in 1947 when Packard became the company’s first President. He left the company in 1969 to work under Nixon’s administration up until 1971 when he came back to the company and oversaw major reorganization. He retired in 1993.

Packard has created the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation and donated $55 million in total to build an aquarium which opened in 1984 and donated another 13 million to create the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The success of MBARI is actually goes to his daughters, Nancy Burnett and Julie Packard. There are the one whom suggest the project of build an aquarium like no other, with marine creatures displayed in their natural habits, to inspire conservation of the oceans. Thus in 1984, the Monterey Bay Aquarium was born.

In his own words, MBARI was to "Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.