Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 by Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett in a Palo Alto, California garage. HP is now a global technology company that develops and manufactures computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designs software, and delivers services. It was the first IT company to report over $100 billion in annual revenue. HP markets its diverse products to households, small/medium businesses, and large enterprises. It has a global workforce and is recognized as one of the top 500 companies worldwide.