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.
At 12, Michael Dell landed a job washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant so that he could earn money to do future preparations.
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.
At the age of 15, he brought a early Apple computer and took it apart to see how it worked.
At the age of 19, Michael Dell starts PC’s Limited with $1,000 and a game-changing vision for the technology industry.
Dell goes public, raising $30 million and increasing market capitalization from $1,000 to $85 million.
Dell debuts on the Fortune 500, making Michael Dell the youngest CEO on the list.
Dell.com launches, generating $1 million in sales per day just six months after site is live.
Dell and EMC form distribution deal to enable more affordable enterprise- class storage area network solutions for customers of all sizes.
Dell tops the list of “America’s Most Admired Companies” in Fortune magazine.
Dell acquires Secure Works, RNA Networks and Dell Force10 Networks – leaders in enterprise solutions and services.
Dell and EMC unite, making the combined company a global enterprise solutions powerhouse.
