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On today's show, we talk about the billionaire founder of Dell Computers, Michael Dell.

As you'll learn on the show, Mr. Dell started his company out of his college dorm room and

now has a personal net worth of over $28 billion.

During the show, we talk about how he built his company and the things he learned along

the way.

We cover his company's rocket ship like growth and we also talk about some of the struggles

that he had to overcome to achieve such enormous business success.

So without further delay, here's our discussion on billionaire Michael Dell.

You are listening to the Investors podcast where we study the financial markets and read

the books that influence self-made billionaires the most.

We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected.

All right, welcome to the Investors podcast.

As usual, I'm accompanied by my co-host, Stig Brodersen.

My name is Preston Pish.

Like we said in the introduction, we're going to be covering Michael Dell.

And so we're just going to jump straight into the questions.

Mr. Dell was asked, what was the story behind starting up Dell?

This was his response.

When I was freshman at the University of Texas, I was going to school at every intention

of going to school.

And I was kind of playing around with this as a hobby while I was going to school.

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