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Michael Dell was born on 23 February 1965 in Houston to a Jewish family. His father, Alexander Dell, was an orthodontist while his mother Lorraine Charlotte, was a stockbroker.
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At 12, Michael Dell landed a job washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant so that he could earn money to do future preparations.
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A few years later he harnessed his ability to sift through data to find new customers for newspaper subscriptions for the Houston Post, which earned the high school student $18,000 in one single year.
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At the age of 15, he brought a early Apple computer and took it apart to see how it worked.
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At the age of 19, Michael Dell starts PC’s Limited with $1,000 and a game-changing vision for the technology industry.
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Dell goes public, raising $30 million and increasing market capitalization from $1,000 to $85 million.
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Dell debuts on the Fortune 500, making Michael Dell the youngest CEO on the list.
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Dell.com launches, generating $1 million in sales per day just six months after site is live.
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Dell and EMC form distribution deal to enable more affordable enterprise- class storage area network solutions for customers of all sizes.
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Dell tops the list of “America’s Most Admired Companies” in Fortune magazine.
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Dell acquires Secure Works, RNA Networks and Dell Force10 Networks – leaders in enterprise solutions and services.
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Dell and EMC unite, making the combined company a global enterprise solutions powerhouse.
