Dell Technologies, every mention
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Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
- ▶ 4:02 Lily Kanter They just gave the license serial number to Dell, to all of their partners of their desktops and their laptops.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
- ▶ 21:07 Guy Raz Outside of Austin working for Dell. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Guy Raz I mean, you, you were at Dell for almost three years, but then you, I guess, out of frustration, left and, and helped, um, start a new restaurant called Lucy's Bowyard.
- ▶ 33:41 Guy Raz Meanwhile, founder Mike Ripka has gone from managing huge kitchens at the World Bank and Dell to toiling away in a trailer pretty much doing everything himself. 2 times in the scene
Weee!: Larry Liu
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
- ▶ 4:13 Guy Raz 10 years after Nelson founded Alienware in his Miami garage, the company was acquired by Dell, and it's still part of Dell today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:46 Guy Raz No, none of these big PC companies, IBM and Dell and HP and Compaq were making gaming.
- ▶ 41:25 Frank Azor Uh, these parts were in high demand in many cases, and sometimes you'd be competing against the big companies like a Dell or an HP for something like memory or for a motherboard or for a processor.
- ▶ 50:55 Guy Raz Now, I mean, obviously you were getting attention for what you were doing, but it's certainly when, when you were one of the very few businesses doing this, but, but by the time this became clear, it was clear to the, to, you know, Dell,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:47 Guy Raz You consider going public, but ultimately you get an acquisition offer from, from Dell, from your biggest competitor, from the evil empire, obviously, and he's, Michael Dell's been on the show, but, but, but you must have been like, they… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:42 Guy Raz So, so to you, it was Dell was going to be with their supply chains, with their, uh, you know, marketing chops, with their massive scale, you were thinking we're going to use their resources to grow even bigger. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:39 Guy Raz You only left Dell in, in 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:11 Guy Raz Um, when you guys think about, about this journey, right, you know, this, this thing that started in 96, 97, a garage sold for, you know, who knows how many millions of dollars to Dell, but a lot.
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of Hint
Norma Kamali: Norma Kamali
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
- ▶ 0:28 Guy Raz I mean, 21 years old, sixty million dollars, and that was just the beginning for Dell Computers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12 Guy Raz Now, today, the company is enormous. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Guy Raz I mean, Compaq and Dell came out of that convention.
- ▶ 19:33 Michael Dell I mean, the opportunity for, you know, what became Dell Computer Corporation was more and more apparent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:09 Guy Raz But in the mid-nineteen-eighties, pretty soon after Michael hired his first engineers to start making the first Dell computers from scratch, they were selling so many computers so fast 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:26 Guy Raz I mean, you're, you're, at that time, Dell was already doing, like, multiple, like, what, 10, 20, thirty million dollars in sales a year? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:15 Guy Raz Because at that point, you, I guess, owned the entire company. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:42 Guy Raz I'm curious about 2004, because you, you, you stepped down as a CEO of Dell. 14 times in the scene
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz So if you have a PC at home or at work, and you buy some software like Word or TurboTax, it doesn't really matter if you have a Dell or an HP or a Toshiba, because if it's a PC, it will run PC software.
- ▶ 30:56 Guy Raz You think about Compaq, it was such a powerhouse in the eighties, a fortune 500 company, does a billion dollars in revenue within five years, and then you think about all of the companies that, that it was associated with, or that it… 2 times in the scene
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 19:26 unnamed speaker So every week, we would put in order to, to Dell. 2 times in the scene
Dell Computers: Michael Dell
- ▶ 1:15 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a college freshman turned a dorm room side hustle into Dell, one of the biggest computer makers in the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:00 Guy Raz I mean, Compaq and Dell came out of that convention.
- ▶ 19:31 Michael Dell For, you know, what became Dell Computer Corporation was more and more apparent.
- ▶ 22:22 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how that idea launched Michael down a path that would make Dell one of the biggest computer companies in the world.
- ▶ 23:06 Guy Raz But in the mid-nineteen eighties, pretty soon after Michael hired his first engineers to start making the first Dell computers from scratch, they were selling so many computers so fast that 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:27 Guy Raz Like, what was, what were your ambitions for the company? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:24 Guy Raz I mean, you're, at that time, Dell was already doing, like, multiple, like, what, 10, 20, thirty million dollars in sales a year? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:15 Guy Raz Because at that point, you, I guess, owned the entire company. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:32 Guy Raz So, 2001, Dell computers, PCs, becomes a number one brand by, by sales, by market share. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:47 Guy Raz I, I'm curious about 2004, because you, you, you stepped down as the CEO of Dell, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:48 Guy Raz And lest you think of a Dell computer as the nerdy John Hodgman character in those PC versus Mac commercials, Dell computers have actually been used by the good guys in the Jason Bourne movies, in Spider-Man, Captain America, even Mission… 3 times in the scene
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz So if you have a PC at home or at work, and you buy some software like Word or TurboTax, it doesn't really matter if you have a Dell or an HP or a Toshiba, because if it's a PC, it will run PC software, and that makes perfect sense, right?
- ▶ 30:34 Guy Raz You think about Compaq, it was such a powerhouse in the eighties, a fortune 500 company, does a billion dollars in revenue within five years, and then you think about all of the companies that, that it was associated with, or that it… 2 times in the scene