TEXAS TECH HEAD How Michael Dell built an empire

The Texas Tech Head

ichael Saul Dell was born on February 23, 1965, in Houston Texas, to Lorraine Charlotte, a stockbroker, and Alexander Dell, an orthodontist. From an early age, Michael showed a keen interest in technology and gadgets, even though his parents tried to steer him more into medicine. A hard worker, Dell landed a job washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant at the age of 12 so that he could put away money for his stamp collection. A few years later he harnessed his ability to sift through data to find new customers for newspaper subscriptions for the Houston Post, which earned the high school student $18,000 in one single year. Intrigued by the expanding world of computers and gadgetry, Dell purchased an early Apple computer at the age of 15 for the strict