Michael Dell was born on February 23, 1965 in Houston, Texas. He grew up in a well off Jewish family. When Michele was 15, he took apart a new Apple II computer and rebuilt it just to see if he could. Dell went to Memorial High School in Houston, where he did not always do well academically. One of his teachers actually told him that "he would never go anywhere in life." He attended the University of Texas at Austin with hopes of becoming a doctor. Dell started his own business called, PC's Limited, selling computers from his dorm room. Michael Dell ended up taking the $1,000 his grandparents set aside for him, and dropped out of college and began to build his own company.
In 1987, PC's Limited changed its name to Dell Computer Corporation. Dell became the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world. When he started his company in 1984, the manufacturers were all selling standard models through retail stores. Now there are sales of US $49 billion and profits of US $3......

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