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Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 45:07 David Senra Within a year, Dell's web objects powered online sales exploded, growing to three million dollars a day and quickly becoming the core of the company's distribution strategy. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 54:51 David Senra Bill and Paul were very different, and I think there's a story in Michael Dell's autobiography that's similar to the story that's told in Paul Allen's autobiography, in the sense that Michael had an older, more experienced person that he… 3 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 25:28 David Senra Dell launched the year before, not in a garage, but in a dorm room.
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 11:36 David Senra And now, because I just spent, you know, two weeks studying Michael Dell and reading both the books that he wrote, there's a lot of Dell that jumps out to me. 3 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 0:11 David Senra That evening was almost the precise midpoint in a nine month drama in which the personal computing company I started in my freshman dorm room at the University of Texas in 1984. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 David Senra He started Dell at 18, and as you and I will talk about in a little bit, he realized that he was working on Dell for many years before that, but he starts Dell at 18, and he's still at 60, still working on it, and still on the top of his… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 David Senra Countless hours, probably over a hundred hours, you know, between listening to the audiobook multiple times, reading everything I could find on Dell, watching all these interviews. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:41 David Senra And you start to see him start businesses and he's using a, a lot of the same, he'll use a lot of these same ideas, you know, five or six years into the future when he goes all in on Dell, but he said he would collect stamps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:37 David Senra This is like one, I'm selling individual subscriptions and you'll see the reason I'm talking about this because he uses all these ideas at the beginning of Dell to like start out selling directly to like just one individual, one rich…
- ▶ 24:15 David Senra And then this is really, you know, the start of his computer business slowly and surely it's going to turn into Dell. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:59 David Senra I think pretty sure he says in that book that Dell was profitable for every single quarter of its existence.
- ▶ 35:14 David Senra So then he moves into his dorm, and this is the dorm room in which Dell is going to be born.
- ▶ 41:09 David Senra But in 1984, my little one-man operation formally became Dell Computer Corporation, doing business as PCs Limited. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:54 David Senra Now, what I want to focus on is the building of Dell, but I do want to just pull out when I find them in the book, just these other lessons I think Michael Dell has for us. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:56 David Senra In fact, let me read something from you, uh, to you rather indirect from Dell, which is, you know, published 20 years before the book that I'm holding in my hand.
- ▶ 1:09:27 David Senra This is how Michael Dell and Dell saw this problem. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:38 David Senra At the time they're doing businesses, PCs limited. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:21 David Senra Being president of Dell computer had been a five to nine job. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:10 David Senra So he says in 1983, I gave a presentation on why we needed to go into the server business in a big way, and then why, and if we didn't, it could be real trouble. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:07 David Senra So Dell is going to complete the largest technology buyout ever. 16 times in the scene
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 59:46 David Senra Says Michael Dell of Dell computer.
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 18:15 David Senra And in the second autobiography, one of my favorite ideas that he had was, you know, this idea of Dell was completely natural to, to how he wanted to spend his time and he actually got energy.
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 34:38 David Senra And is deployed by companies which have now come to dominate Nomad, which is his holding in Costco, Dell, Amazon, and Berkshire.
Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep & Qais Zakaria Built Their Partnership
- ▶ 29:38 David Senra Likewise, durable winners such as Dell computer, Southwest airlines, Tesco, all followed a similar path.