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Hi, everybody. I'm Nicola Tangan, and today I'm here with one of the most incredible tech entrepreneurs of all times,

who started off in his freshman dorm room and built his company to one of the largest technology companies in the world.

Now, one third of you will have a PC with his name on.

Michael Dell, welcome.

Thank you so much. Great to be with you.

Normally, Michael, I would kind of start with the presence,

but I think when it comes to you, we have to go all the way back,

you know, with the beginning.

So you were very young and

you bought an IBM computer. And most people would kind of start to do computer things,

but you took it apart instead. What did you, how did that happen? What did you see inside that

computer? Well, back then, you could actually learn a lot because you didn't have these large

chips that we have today that are an amalgamation of lots of small chips.

And so you could literally get a book that would explain what each chip did, and you could

understand the circuits. And as as I said I was upgrading

computers to make them do more right you know more memory more storage uh make them go faster right

and so what I found in this IBM personal computer was that none of the parts were made by IBM.

And then I sort of discovered that the cost that they were, you know, the price they were

charging for the computer was roughly six times the cost of the parts.

Right.

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