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The teenager who built PCs to order from a University of Texas dorm room in 1984 grew that direct-sales insight into a $90 billion infrastructure company — and engineered what was, at the time, the largest technology acquisition in history with a $67 billion EMC deal.
Michael Dell is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, generating over $90 billion in annual revenue.
Dell founded the company in 1984 from his University of Texas dorm room at age 19, pioneering direct-to-consumer PC sales. The company went private in a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout in 2013 and returned to public markets in 2018. Its $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 was the largest technology acquisition in history at the time.
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