The Humble Beginning Of Texas Billionaire Michael Dell
Who is Michael Saul Dell? Well, he was a college student at the time he started his computer business. He was only 19, when he acted on a business idea to start repairing old computers from his college dormitory room.
Michael was born on the 23rd of February, 1965 in Houston, Texas, to average working class parents, who consisted of the father being an orthodontist and mom as a a money manager. Like myself with my Brown Commodore C-16 (before the Commodore 64 came out) computer keyboard and cassette tape player with the cartridge outlet in the back of the keyboard tinkering in my childhood, Dell was interested in computers from a very young age and was already pulling them apart at the age of 15. He attended the University of Texas with hopes of becoming a doctor, but abandoned studies to start his own business at just 19 years of age.
Now, the innovative thing about Mr. Dell is that he started with less than $1,000 back in 1984 not only from his dormitory room, but it wasn’t named Dell computers back then. It was originally "PC’s Limited". He also built and sold personal computers from stock computer parts with his bare hands, acting as a 1 man coalition.
I commend Mr. Dell , for having the innovative mind to not only be persistent and changing technologically with time, but also standing fast on being an independent person, and venturing out on his own, by means of running his own business. Also, with the clientele he was slowly acquiring, the consumer was allowed to customize how they would like Michael Dell to build their personal home computer.
From 1984 to 1988, Mike finally stepped his game up & went hard, as far as being O.G. in renaming PC’s limited to "Dell Computer Corporation". Also, this idea of him starting his PC business from his college dorm room in 1984 and being persistent with it till 1988 enabled him to have an initial public offering (IPO) that valued the company at roughly $80 million. 4 years prior, he had NOTHING, and was working class. Very intriguing how he started with $1,000 and a dream, and 4 years later, he’s now worth $80,000,000.00??? 
WOW!! More like TAADOW!!!
And then peep at this. By 1992, the man had gotten so damn big, that after he played his deck on that IPO offering, the boah now got his company listed on The Fortune 500. I say he grew bigger than BIG! Additionally, dig this:
He was also THE YOUNGEST CEO listed on The Fortune 500 directory!
Michael has published his partly autobiographical book "Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry". The book is written in an entertaining, fast paced style that explains how Dell turned his $1000 company into a mega-corporation worth more than $100 billion.
Dell stepped down from his role as CEO at Dell Inc. in 2004 but remains the Chairman of the Board.
I take my Google hat off to him, for staying focused in life & never letting anything stop him from living his dreams today. I thank GOD also that HE has helped me wake up from my slacker days, because although I am a late bloomer, I am HUMBLED & THANKFUL for what is in my head now…….:-)
That’s my little bio synopsis on the Texas Billionaire Michael Dell.
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He was born & raised in Brooklyn, New York & has been in the working world for 10 years, including corporate america. As much as he did well on his jobs, someone somewhere he worked with or even the employer themselves found some reason wrongfully to terminate him. He has learned the hard way to become an independent person, breaking the shackles of traditionally following the working class. His mother worked for The City of New York for 35 years and successfully retired in 1994 paycheck to paycheck and thus was never able to ever save a dime nor keep money in her small bank account.
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