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PROFILE
Michael Dell
Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies
$118.6B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 12/30/24
#11 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Photo by Michael Prince for Forbes
From the Editor
- Michael Dell is chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, which formed in 2016 via Dell's $60 billion merger with computer storage giant EMC.
- In late 2018 Dell Technologies returned to public markets through a complicated financial restructuring.
- Dell's cloud software arm, VMware, spun off in 2021; Microchip firm Broadcom bought it in 2023 for $69 billion, 39% of which went to Dell.
- Much of Dell's fortune lies in his private investment firm DFO Management, which has stakes in hotels and invests in liquid corporate credit.
- In 2023, Dell gifted over $3 billion worth of cash and stock to his foundation, which focuses on child poverty, and his donor-advised fund.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 59
- Source of Wealth
- Dell Technologies, Self Made
- Residence
- Austin, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Drop Out, The University of Texas at Austin
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In Their Own Words
I'm guilty of doing too much, and I'm guilty of not seeing mistakes coming. What I'm not guilty of is making the same mistake twice.
Michael Dell
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