Season one eventually reveals that the Earth-1 version (whose partially based on Garrison Slate) originally imagined S.T.A.R. Labs as a science corporation unconnected to the government, sharing this concept with his wife Tess Morgan.
The Earth-1 version (whose partially based on Garrison Slate) originally imagined S.T.A.R. Labs as a science corporation unconnected to the government, sharing this concept with his wife Tess Morgan. This is what season one reveals.