767 - Michael Dell (Part 1): From a Tiny Dorm to Big Time Founder and Leader
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.8 | This is the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:12.8 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:16.4 | This man meets no introduction. |
| 0:18.1 | He started a tiny little computer company out of his dorm room and it just kept growing |
| 0:22.3 | from there. Michael Dell from Dell Computers, enjoy. |
| 0:34.6 | Michael Dell, author of Play Nice, but when a CEO's journey from founder to leader and |
| 0:40.4 | also you may have heard of a small little company he named after himself because he's got |
| 0:44.8 | a huge ego. It's called Dell Computer. |
| 0:47.4 | Michael, how are you doing? |
| 0:49.0 | I'm doing great James. Great to be with you. |
| 0:51.8 | Michael, this book is not only a book about entrepreneurship, but I feel like it's a how |
| 0:56.3 | to on deal making. |
| 0:57.6 | You went through so much with all sorts of hedge fund activist battles with Dell through |
| 1:01.8 | the years, but I really want to start with the beginning and then go to the end also |
| 1:07.4 | because I'm curious about some things. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm always fascinated by your iconic story of how you started. |
| 1:12.8 | You're literally the college student entrepreneur's dream come true. |
| 1:18.3 | You're a little shit in your dorm room and make a billion dollars doing it. |
| 1:22.7 | So how did it all start? |
| 1:24.5 | I was a freshman at the University of Texas. |
| 1:29.0 | It was kind of the dawn of the microprocessor age. |
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