[3] In January 2013, it was announced that he had bid to take Dell Inc. private for $24.4 billion in the biggest management buyout since the Great Recession.

[7] In a bid to enter business early, he applied to take a high school equivalency exam at age eight.

[9] Dell purchased his first calculator at age seven and encountered an early teletype terminal in junior high.

[12] Dell continued learning to target specific populations for newspaper subscriptions rather than just making cold calls.

After collecting the contact information of this population from public records, he sent direct mail appeals and earned $18,000 in one year.

[11] He hired several employees, and after earning a gross profit of nearly $200,000 in his first year of business, Dell dropped out of the University of Texas at age 19.

[14] While a freshman pre-med student at the University of Texas, Dell started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers in Room 2713 of the Dobie Center residential building.

[17][18][19] In January 1984, Dell believed that the potential cost savings of a manufacturer selling PCs directly had enormous advantages over the conventional indirect retail channel.

[24] In 1992, aged 27, he became the youngest CEO of a company ranked in Fortune magazine's list of the top 500 corporations.

[30] On October 12, 2015, Dell Inc. announced its intent to acquire the enterprise software and storage company EMC Corporation.

[33] In July 2010, Dell Inc. agreed to pay a $100 million penalty to settle SEC charges[34] of disclosure and accounting fraud in relation to undisclosed payments from Intel Corporation.

[38] In April 2020, Governor Greg Abbott named Dell to the Strike Force to Open Texas – a group "tasked with finding safe and effective ways to slowly reopen the state" during the COVID-19 pandemic.