英雄莫问出处：6个大品牌的诡异发源地

    众所周知，苹果公司是由史蒂夫•乔布斯和史蒂夫•沃兹尼亚克在乔布斯家的车库里创立的。

    从车库走出的大公司还包括亚马逊、谷歌、美泰、惠普和微软——创业之初，比尔•盖茨和保罗•艾伦也曾窝在新墨西哥州一家非常寒掺的汽车旅馆开发软件。

    马克•扎克伯格在哈佛大学宿舍创办Facebook的故事已经广为人知，特别是在电影《社交网络》上映之后。另一家诞生在大学宿舍的公司是戴尔，这家电脑公司是迈克尔•戴尔在德克萨斯大学宿舍创立的。不过还有许多公司诞生在让人意想不到的地方，比如杂物间或地下室。现在我们就来看看一些大企业的“龙腾之地”，以及这些地方如今的模样。

    It’s common knowledge that Apple was started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the Jobs family garage.

    Other garage-founded titans include Amazon, Google, Mattel, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft— which Bill Gates and Paul Allen also developed at the sketchy Sundowner Motel in New Mexico.

    Similarly, Facebook’s origins in Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard were already pretty well known, then became even more known after the release of the film The Social Network. Another tech company famously starting in a dorm was Dell, founded in Michael Dell’s room at the University of Texas.

    But many other companies have started in the unlikeliest of places, from a closet to a crypt. Here’s a look at some sites where a big business was once small — and what’s happening at those spots now.

    棒约翰比萨

    这家比萨连锁巨头如今在34个国家拥有4600多家门店，但这一切皆源自一个不起眼的酒吧杂物间。

    约翰•H•施德纳年轻时在很多家比萨店工作过。1984年大学毕业后，他开始在印第安那州杰斐逊维尔经营一家他父亲与人合办的酒吧：Mick’s Lounge。

    施德纳卖掉了他的车，买下了另一位合伙人的股权。然后，他拆掉了酒吧的杂物室，安了一个比萨炉。他至今还记得，有一天晚上他们在那间杂物室里做成了一笔2300美元的生意，他高兴得上蹦下跳的样子，仿佛他们已经变得非常富有。“就这样，生意一下子火起来了。”

    那家Mick’s Lounge酒吧如今还在营业，但在棒约翰公司走上连锁模式后，那间杂物室就不再属于它了，而施德纳也不再是这家酒吧的老板。

    Papa John's

    The pizza chain now has more than 4,600 locations in 34 countries, but it all started with a broom closet in a bar.

    As a young man, John H. Schnatter had worked at a lot of pizzerias. In 1984 after graduating college, he was managing a bar his father co-owned, Mick’s Lounge in Jeffersonville, Ind.

    He sold his car to buy out the other owner. Then Schnatter tore down the bar’s broom closet, installed a pizza oven, and got to work. He recalls jumping up and down with excitement the night they did $2,300 worth of business in that broom closet, thinking they were rich. “And then all of a sudden it took off.”

    Mick’s Lounge is still open and serving food, but once Papa John’s became franchised, the original was no longer a Papa John’s -- and Schnatter is no longer an owner of the bar.