Career

Career:

 William Redington Hewlett had a long prolific and influential career. Marked as one of the most innovative entrepreneurs, it was while he was attending Stanford when he became acquainted to future business partner David Packard. The two started founded Hewlett-Packard Company in August of 1937. HP would later incorporate in 1947 and go public in 1957. The early days at HP consisted of several projects with their first financially successful product being a precision audio oscillator (model HP200A). Graduating from Stanford University with a degree in electrical engineering gave Hewlett the credentials needed to serve as President of Institute of Radio Engineers in 1954. Hewlett would end up being at the forefront of HP innovation for a little over five decades. He served as HP's President from 1964 to 1977, and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978. Hewlett helped lead HP to being the nations 13 th largest business, with annual sales approaching $50 billion and close to ninety thousand employees in 120 countries (Gardner). William Hewlett would go on to be honorably recognized on multiple occasions. In 1995 he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Prize. He would also go on to receive the 3 rd Annual Heinz Award Chairman's Medal with business partner David Packard. And just recently, William R. Hewlett was inducted into the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame which was established to to recognize and commemorate those who have had a long-lasting positive effect on entrepreneurship on technological advancement. Besides being known as a great entrepreneur, Bill Hewlett was also a very generous and caring philanthropist. Hewlett founded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation which focuses on 'Making grants to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world'.