Bill Hewlett

William Redington Hewlett (Mayu 20, 1913 - Janairu 12, shekarar 2001) injiniyan Ba'amurke ne kuma mai haɗin gwiwa, tare da David Packard, na Kamfanin Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Kuruciya da Karatu
An haifi Hewlett a Ann Arbor, Michigan, inda mahaifinsa ya koyar a Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Jami'ar Michigan. A cikin shekarar 1916 dangin sun koma San Francisco bayan mahaifinsa, Albion Walter Hewlett, ya ɗauki irin wannan matsayi a Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Stanford, wanda ke a lokacin a San Francisco. Ya kuma halarci makarantar sakandare ta Lowell kuma ya kasance Kwamandan Bataliya na shekarar 1929-1930 na shirin JROTC na makarantar. An karɓe shi a Jami'ar Stanford a matsayin wata tagomashi ga mahaifinsa marigayi wanda ya mutu sakamakon ciwon kwakwalwa a 1925 .

Hewlett ya sami digirinsa na farko a jami'ar Stanford a shekarar 1934, inda ya yi digiri na biyu a fannin injiniyan lantarki daga MIT a shekarar 1936, sannan ya yi digiri na biyu a fannin injiniyan lantarki daga Stanford a 1939. Ya shiga kungiyar Kappa Sigma a lokacin da yake Stanford. . Har ila yau Hewlett yana fama da rashin ƙarfi, wanda ya sa ya yi fama da karatu da kuma yin rubutu .
Aiki
Hewlett ya halarci azuzuwan karatun digiri wanda Fred Terman ya koyar a Stanford kuma ya saba da David Packard. Packard da shi sun fara tattauna kafa kamfani a watan Agustan shekarar 1937, kuma suka kafa kamfanin Hewlett-Packard a matsayin haɗin gwiwa a ranar 1 ga Janairu, 1939. Ƙirar tsabar kuɗi ta yanke shawarar yin odar sunayensu . Babban nasararsu ta farko ta zo ne lokacin da Disney ta sayi oscillators guda takwas na sauti wanda Hewlett ya tsara waɗanda aka yi amfani da su don shirya fim ɗin Fantasia.

Kamfanin ya haɗa a cikin 1947 kuma ya ba da kyauta ta jama'a ta farko a cikin 1957. Bill Hewlett da Dave Packard sun yi alfahari da al'adun kamfaninsu wanda aka fi sani da HP Way. Hanyar HP Way al'ada ce ta kamfani wacce ta yi iƙirarin cewa ta dogara ba kawai kan samun kuɗi ba har ma da mutuntawa da kuma kula da ma'aikatanta. Hewlett ya kasance shugaban Cibiyar Injiniya ta Rediyo a 1954 .
Ya kasance shugaban HP daga 1964 zuwa 1977 kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaba daga 1968 zuwa 1978, bayan haka John A. Young ya gaje shi. Ya kasance shugaban kwamitin zartarwa har zuwa 1983, sannan ya zama mataimakin shugaban hukumar har zuwa 1987 .

Wani matashi Steve Jobs, yana ɗan shekara 12,  da ake kira Hewlett (wanda lambarsa ke cikin littafin waya) kuma ya nemi kowane ɓangaren da ke akwai don injin mitar da yake ginawa. Hewlett, wanda ya ji daɗin yunƙurin Ayyuka, ya ba shi aikin rani yana haɗa ma'aunin ƙididdiga . Sa'an nan Jobs ya kuma ɗauki HP ɗaya daga cikin kamfanonin da ya sha'awar, game da shi a cikin ƙananan kamfanoni (Disney da Intel su ne sauran) waɗanda aka gina "don dawwama, ba kawai don samun kuɗi ba" . Steve Wozniak, wanda ya kafa Apple tare da Ayyuka, bai yi nasara ba har sau biyar don sayar da kwamfutar Apple I ga HP yayin aiki a can. An gina kwamfutocin farko na Apple tare da sassan HP, a ƙarƙashin sakin doka daga HP. Daga cikin damar da aka rasa, an ruwaito Hewlett ya ce, "Kuna lashe wasu, kun rasa wasu."

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