Red Hat's co-founder was unemployed and working in a closet when he started the company IBM is buying for $34 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/before-sale-to-ibm-for-billions-red-hat-started-in-cofounders-closet.html
In 1993, Bob Young was unemployed and working out of his wife's sewing closet on a new company he co-founded. This week, that company sold to IBM for $34 billion in the tech giant's largest acquisition ever.
"It's, no question, an out of body experience," Young tells CNBC Make It.