Michael Dell is known as an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is most famous for being the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies which is one of the world's largest technology brands.
Background
Michael Saul Dell was born on February 23, 1965, Houston, Texas.
Career
When he was a college student of the University of Texas at Austin, Dell started his own computer business and called it PCs Limited. It was during the early stages of the computer era in 1984 and Dell only had $1,000 in start-up capital for his startup. It started out right for Dell, by the second half of his freshman year, he already sold $80,000 worth of computers to his customers.
He decided to drop out of college at the age of 19 to run his company full-time and without any distractions. His company eventually went public in 1988 and he changed the company’s name to Dell Inc. As the company grew, the product line expanded to include more than personal computers and other electronics.
Dell was ranked as the 39th richest person in the world by Forbes magazine. He currently has a huge net worth of 28.6 billion dollars that he has made from being the CEO of Dell Technologies.
Birth Date: | 23 Feb, 1965 |
Age: | 55 yrs |
Occupations: | Entrepreneur Financier Computer scientist |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Birth Place: | Houston |
residence: | Austin |
Education: | University of Texas at Austin |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | American businessman and CEO |
Net Worth 2021: | 50.2 billion |