three guys in a garage

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three guys in a garage pl (plural only)

(informal) A small, agile group of startup innovators with a big idea, passion, and modest resources.
- 1999, Network World, volume 16, number 16, page 81:
  "By next year, three guys in a garage will be able to build a Layer 3 terabit backbone router by buying merchant silicon and writing software, and the box will be as fast and as cheap as an ASIC-based product," says David Husack […]