Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)

Hey, and happy new year, everyone. Okay, now just for a moment. Think of yourself at the age of, say, twenty one or twenty-two. Maybe you're just out of college or you're in the first few months of a new job. You've got a roommate or two, you're trying to save a bit of money, whatever. Okay, now think about Michael Dell. At the age of twenty one, he was already running a company that was making like sixty million dollars a year, which Every time I say this just still seems

crazy to me. I mean 21 years old, 60 million dollars, and that was just the beginning for Dell Computers. This story of how Michael built his company? It's the kind of thing that makes you feel like almost anything is possible. This episode first ran in January of twenty eighteen. You know, here I am supposed to be going to college and I've got this thriving business in my dorm room. I was buying computers and souping them up w with more you know capability and then

Reselling them. So I advertised I bid on state contract. How did you know to do all that?

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