MICHAEL DELL 1965 ENTREPRENEUR DELL MICHAEL 1965 TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY BUSINESS/COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MICHAEL DELL WAS BORN IN HOUSTON TEXAS IN 1965 HE SHOWED AN APTITUDE FOR BUSINESS AND FOR COMPUTERS AT A VERY EARLY AGE AT THE AGE OF 12 HE EARNED 2000 SELLING STAMPS FROM HIS STAMP COLLECTION THE FOLLOWING YEAR HE BEGAN INVESTING IN THE STOCK MARKET BY AGE 15 HE HAD BOUGHT HIS FIRST COMPUTER AND HE TOOK IT APART AND REASSEMBLED IT TO FIGURE OUT HOW IT WORKED IN HIGH SCHOOL HE BEGAN WORKING FOR THE HOUSTON POST BECOMING THE NEWSPAPER'S TOP SALESPERSON AT AGE 17 IN 1983 HE BEGAN HIS STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS BUT HE SOON FOUND A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY HE COULD NOT IGNORE HE BOUGHT SURPLUS COMPUTERS FROM LOCAL COMPUTER DEALERS ADDED MORE MEMORY TO THE COMPUTERS AND SOLD THEM DOOR TO DOOR AND THROUGH MAIL ORDER BY THE END OF HIS FIRST YEAR OF COLLEGE HE WAS SELLING 50000 WORTH OF COMPUTERS EVERY MONTH WITH 1000 IN 1984 DELL FOUNDED A COMPUTER STORE CALLED PCS LTD BY THE END OF THE YEAR HIS SALES HAD REACHED 6 MILLION HE RENAMED THE COMPANY DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION IN 1987 BY 1999 DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION HAD GROWN TO EMPLOY MORE THAN 29300 PEOPLE IN 33 COUNTRIES
