Michael Dell

Michael Dell
Dell in 2021
Born
Michael Saul Dell

(1965-02-23) February 23, 1965 (age 59)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin (dropped out)
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • investor
  • philanthropist
Title
Spouse
Susan Lynn Lieberman
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(m. 1989)​
Children4
RelativesAdam Dell (brother)

Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965) is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies.[1]

He is the 10th-richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of $124 billion as of March 2024.[2] As of October 2023, according to Forbes, approximately $50 billion of his net worth was derived from his 50% stake in Dell and 40% stake in VMware, with the rest being held by his family office DFO Management.[3]

In January 2013 it was announced that he had bid to take Dell Inc. private for $24.4 billion in the biggest management buyout since the Great Recession. Dell Inc. officially went private in October 2013.[4] The company once again went public in December 2018.[5]

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  2. ^ "Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Michael Dell". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on October 6, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  3. ^ Liu, Phoebe (October 20, 2023). "Michael Dell Just Made His Biggest Ever Donation Of Dell Stock". Forbes. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  4. ^ Guglielmo, Connie (October 30, 2013). "Dell Officially Goes Private: Inside The Nastiest Tech Buyout Ever". Forbes. Archived from the original on August 5, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
  5. ^ "Dell returns to market with NYSE listing". Reuters. December 28, 2018. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 5, 2019.