26 - Michael Dell, Dell CEO: Starting a Business and Keeping it Going
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26 - Michael Dell, Dell CEO: Starting a Business and Keeping it Going

Michael Dell founded his company 33 years ago, in his freshman dorm room at the University of Texas, Austin. He had $1,000 to buy PC parts, and took orders over the phone. After that, it ballooned like crazy – and made Dell Computer one of the fastest-growing companies ever. The stock price went on a dizzying tear throughout the 1990s, roughly doubling most years throughout the decade. It also made Michael Dell a multi-billionaire. Since then, the path hasn't been easy. The era of gonzo growth in personal computers and corporate servers – Dell's bread and butter – is over. Now attention has turned to smartphones and cloud computing. Sensing weakness, legendary investor Carl Icahn tried to buy out the company four years ago, which probably would have resulted in it breaking into pieces. Michael Dell fought him and won, taking his namesake company private, and then making it bigger than ever.


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131 - Apple Card: How the Cash and Features Stack Up

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130 - Monopoly: Are Apple, Google, Facebook & Amazon Fair Game?

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129 - Facebook’s $5 billion speeding ticket, with NYT's Farhad Manjoo

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128 - Putting a Dollar Value on Personal Data, with CNBC's Josh Lipton

128 - Putting a Dollar Value on Personal Data, with CNBC's Josh Lipton

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127 - Life Lessons and an Elephant Attack: Great Stories from Great Minds

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125 - Apple WWDC Preview, and Tech's Labor Unrest; with Walt Mossberg

125 - Apple WWDC Preview, and Tech's Labor Unrest; with Walt Mossberg

We’re past Memorial Day, and that means two things: barbecue season, and software season.    Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, WWDC, kicks off Monday. It’s an event where Apple gathers engineers...

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