Michael dell net worth

Michael Saul Dell born February 23, is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies , one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies. In January , it was announced that he had bid to take Dell Inc. Dell Inc. Dell was born in in Houston to a Jewish family.

Michael attended Herod Elementary School in Houston. Dell purchased his first calculator at age seven and encountered an early teletype terminal in junior high. At age 15, after playing with computers at Radio Shack , he got his first computer, an Apple II , which he promptly disassembled to see how it worked. While a freshman pre-med student at the University of Texas , Dell started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers in Room of the Dobie Center residential building.

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In January , Dell believed that the potential cost savings of a manufacturer selling PCs directly had enormous advantages over the conventional indirect retail channel. The company employed a few people as order takers, a few more to fill the orders, and, as Dell recalled, a manufacturing staff consisting of "three guys with screwdrivers sitting at six-foot tables".

In , aged 27, he became the youngest CEO of a company ranked in Fortune magazine's list of the top corporations. By March , Dell Inc. The metric marked the first time the rankings had shifted over the previous seven years. The company's combined shipments of desktops, notebooks and servers grew Notable resistance came from Carl Icahn , but after several months he stepped aside.

On October 12, , Dell Inc.