When Michael Dell was a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, he started upgrading computers for profit. That same year, he dropped out of college after making $80,000 in computer sales. Dell starting working full-time on his business, which was then called PCs Limited. He was only 19 years old at the time.
Eventually, his company became the Dell Computer Corporation and then Dell Inc. It became one of the leaders for personal computers and is worth $45.2 billion.
Michael Dell, whose personal worth is more than $31 billion, is still CEO of the parent company, Dell Technologies.