Hi everybody, I'm Nicola Tangen, 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, you know, you can't actually understand things unless you take them apart and know how they

work. And yeah, I was very interested in electronics and kind of what was inside, right? And, you know,

microprocessors, memory chips and disk drives and power supplies.

And I kind of wanted to understand all of this.

And so I was curious and I was interested.

And one of the things that I found was that the parts that were in this IBM PC, you know, was introduced in August of 1981,

none of the parts were made by IBM.

And I was upgrading computers.

But you were, what would you, like 15 years old or something?

I was 16 years old.

16? And how could you, how did you buy it? I mean, did you get some like 15 years old or something? I was 16 years old. 16.

And how did you buy it?

I mean, did you get some money from my parents or you've made your own money?

Well, I had, when I was swell, I worked in a Chinese restaurant and had a bunch of different

jobs.

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