Michael Dell career history

Michael Dell shares 'one page' that 'changed his life 42 years ago'

Michael Dell shared a 1984 financial statement which convinced his parents he should not return to college. This document showed significant revenue and earnings from his dorm room business. Dell Computer Corporation began by selling PC upgrade packages to customers. The company later adopted a direct-to-consumer sales model for custom-built computers. Today, Dell Technologies builds infrastructure powering artificial intelligence technologies globally.

Michael Dell Reveals 'One Page' From 42 Years Ago That Changed His Life: 'It Convinced My Parents'

Michael Dell reveals the earnings page that changed his life and convinced his parents to back him.

'I was fifteen and riveted': What Steve Jobs said that hooked a young Michael Dell

In his memoir Play Nice But Win, Michael Dell recalls meeting Steve Jobs in the spring of 1980 at a Houston computer user group, aged just fifteen. Jobs, then 25 and weeks from Apple's IPO, spoke about personal computers revolutionising the world. Dell writes he was riveted, and could not have imagined that in five years, Steve Jobs and he would be colleagues and friends, long before their famous Apple rivalry.

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