ahead founders and check it out and if you're an acquirer or you're looking to beef up your startups footprint you really should just pay the NUMBER_TOKEN in peruse and see what you could buy there it's a really cool service all right we have a special treat for you today we have an entrepreneur that i've always looked up to when i was coming up in the tech industry started his career by buying ibm pcs and upgrading them from his dorm room with memory chips hard drives started making NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN grand a month and eventually decided maybe i'll even try to make my own computers and those computers went on to change the world uh that brand is dell and that entrepreneur is michael dell his parents uh immigrated from new york city to houston and that's where uh i found out about all of this amazing story uh comes from his new book and the new book is play nice play nice but win something my mom always said play nice uh and you know what he named it after what his mom told him play nice but win and it is quite a story the book is a barn burner buy it right now pause the podcast uh listen to the audiobook but if you're an entrepreneur man it's a hell of a story congratulations and welcome to the program michael dell thank you jason great to be with you the book's amazing and you basically tell the story of the origin story of dell your family story but also interwoven in a time-shifting fashion with the massive drama of taking dell private fighting with pearl icahn uh and then interdispersed in the story our amazing moments with steve jobs uh battling compact and everything in between why did you take the time now to write your autobiography well i i wrote a book in the late NUMBER_TOKENs which which uh you know was was fun and we we we'd accomplished a lot in the first you know decade and a half of the company but certainly a lot had occurred in the last decade and i was also at a place where i'm much more comfortable disclosing things and being vulnerable and i wanted to share a lot of the personal reflections and struggles and challenges and really what i was feeling during all those moments and so that's what i did and you know with with the go private and the it was the biggest take private ever in technology and then we did the biggest acquisition ever in technology and transformed the company and then went public again a lot of friends encouraged me to write a book about all that and so here it is yeah and and it's a great story i mean the the parts i love about it is the origin story uh pretty amazing to think uh you were coming of age in the NUMBER_TOKENs watching all these pcs and like myself you had a subscription to bite magazine to pc magazine you became friends with jim seymour the columnist who i didn't know was actually in austin but you were obsessed with business at a young age and you saw this opportunity in pcs what was the opportunity you saw in the personal computer when did you see it uh and then what take us to that moment when you decided i'm not just going to upgrade people's computers and make a
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