Michael Dell
Austin, Texas
Drop Out, The University of Texas at Austin
United States
Dell
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Dell computers, Self Made
$32,300,000,000
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#25 Billionaires 2019
#17 Forbes 400 2018
Michael Dell is the chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, which was formed in 2016 when Dell merged with computer storage giant EMC.The estimated $60 billion Dell-EMC merger, which was finalized in 2016, was the largest technology acquisition ever.Dell Technologies announced in July 2018 that it will seek to return to public markets through a complicated financial restructuring.Most of Dell's fortune lies in his private investment firm MSD Capital, which has stakes in hotels and restaurants.Dell donated $1 billion to his foundation in May 2017. Altogether it has committed more than $1.5 billion to charities, with a focus on child poverty.
Dell got his start at 19 selling computers out of his University of Texas dorm room, grossing $80,000 by the end of his freshman year. Dell's MSD Capital owns the Four Seasons Maui, plus indirect stakes in Applebees, IHOP, Calvin Klein and reportedly Grand Central Station.
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