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Michael Dell

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.

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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.


Quick Facts
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
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Last Modified: Jun 28 2020
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