Michael Dell: Building a Tech Empire, Bold Business Moves and The Key To Winning

Hi everybody, I'm Nikola Tanyan and today I'm here with one of the most incredible tech entrepreneurs of all times who started off in his freshman dorm room and built his company to one of the largest technology companies in the world. Now one third of you will have a PC with his name on. Michael Dell, welcome. Thank you so much. Great to be with you.

Normally, Michael, I would kind of start with the presence, but I think when it comes to you, we have to go all the way back, you know, with the beginning. Uh so you you were very young and you bought an IBM computer. And most people will kind of start to do computer things, but you took it apart instead. What did you how did that happen? What did what did you see inside that computer?

Well, you know, you can't actually understand things unless you uh take them apart and know how they work. And uh yeah, I was very interested in electronics and kind of what was inside. right and you know microprocessors and memory chips and disk drives and power supplies and I kind of wanted to understand all of this and so um I was curious and I was interested and one of the things that I found was that the the parts that were in this uh IBM PC, you know, was introduced in August of 1981. Uh, n none of the parts were made by IBM.

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