About Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965) 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. As of May 2026, Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes estimate he's the 7th wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of about US $212.8 billion. As of October 2023, according to Forbes, net worth was derived from his 50% stake in Dell and 40% stake in VMware, with the rest being held by his family office DFO Management. In January 2013, it was announced that he had bid to take Dell Inc. private for $24.4 billion in the biggest management buyout since the Great Recession. Dell Inc. officially went private in October 2013. The company once again went public in December 2018. He hired several employees, and after earning a gross profit of nearly $200,000 in his first year of business, Dell dropped out of the University of Texas at age 19. In 1996, Dell started selling computers over the Web, the same year his company launched its first servers. He discovered that people who were most likely to get a subscription were newlyweds and people moving to a new home. In 1992, aged 27, he became the youngest CEO of a company ranked in Fortune magazine's list of the top 500 corporations.
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