Michael Dell
7 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 12, 2025 by Michael Dell · said 97 times in 17 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Senra (62), Zach Dell (18), John Mackey (13), Michael Ovitz (3), James Dyson (1)
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2026 76 mentions in 12 episodes 6 per episode
- Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
- John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
- Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
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Oct 12, 2025
Oct 12, 2025 positive
Michael Dell: Founders should make small, novel mistakes and fix them quickly
“Go make some mistakes nobody's ever made before. Try to make them in small increments. Fix your mistakes as fast as you find them, and you actually want to make mistakes. You just want to make them small and, you know, iterate and fix them quickly.”
Oct 12, 2025 positive
Michael Dell: Technology business is an infinite game of solving puzzles
“You know, it's all just like fun and interesting, and I want to learn. And it's like it's like a big puzzle to solve and understand. And you think about the impact that technology has on the world What could be more exciting than to be in the middle of that an…”
Oct 12, 2025 positive
Dell: Naivete helps founders by unbinding them from conventional thinking
“I have not been in this industry for a long time, and so you know, all these reasons why it won't work are unknown to me, okay? So that's the naive part, right? And that can actually be sometimes a good thing, right? Because you're not sort of bound by those c…”
Oct 12, 2025 negative
Michael Dell: Hiring incumbent industry veterans fails when creating novel businesses
“And if you hire the people from the adjacent, you know, industry companies
And ask them to go do it.
Well, they're just going to go do what they were doing before, right?
And so that's not going to work. So you need a lot of creativity, and you need to sort of…”
Oct 12, 2025 positive
Jan 4, 2026 neutral
Mackey: Most Founders Are Short-Term House Flippers, Not Long-Term Builders
“The most common entrepreneur is a serial entrepreneur. They just start businesses, and they do them for five years and flip them. They're like somebody remodeling a house and then flipping it. And so in these cases, they're really creative. They're good at ger…”