Michael Dell

Michael Dell is the American entrepreneur who founded Dell from his University of Texas dorm room in 1984, selling built-to-order PCs directly to customers and building it into one of the world’s largest technology companies. He pioneered the direct-sales, made-to-order model that reshaped the computer industry, took the company private in a landmark 2013 buyout, and later returned it to public markets. His books chronicle that arc: the strategy behind Dell’s early rise, and the harder-won lessons of leading a giant through reinvention.