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David Senra: Michael Dell, Dell Technologies

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Michael Dell is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies. He is an entrepreneur and technology executive widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in personal computing and enterprise technology. Rising to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s, he became known for revolutionizing the computer industry through his direct-to-consumer sales model and for building one of the world's largest technology companies. He became a household name through Dell's rapid growth and market disruption, and his career highlights include founding Dell with $1,000 from his University of Texas dorm room in 1984 at age 19, becoming the youngest CEO to earn a Fortune 500 ranking in 1992, and executing one of the largest technology deals in history by taking Dell private in 2013, combining it with EMC and VMware in 2016, and returning it to public markets in 2018. Made possible by Ramp: ⁠https://ramp.com⁠ HubSpot: ⁠https://hubspot.com⁠ Function: https://functionhealth.com/senra Chapters (00:00) The Early Obsession: Dell’s Beginnings (00:18) Middle School Memories and Early Financial Fascinations (01:11) The Spark of Stock Market Interest (02:14) Unreleased Products and Unwaver

David Senra: I want to jump right into what we were talking about before we started recording. You said you’ve been obsessed, you’ve been running Dell for 41 years. You’ve been obsessed really since you were 11 or 12, so you’ve been running it for 50 years, because there was a Dell before a Dell, right? But you were saying somebody was telling you this story about you in middle school. Michael Dell: When I was in junior high school, in the summers in Houston, there were classes at Rice University for young kids, okay? And so you could go to Rice University to take these classes. And my mom…

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