Michael Dell
Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dellis an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of personal computers. He was ranked the 41st richest person in the world on 2012 Forbes list of billionaires, with a net worth of US$22.4 billion as of December 2014...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth23 February 1965
CityHouston, TX
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We are now the largest direct company within the worldwide home and small-business market, and are significantly more profitable in that space than our nearest direct competitor. Our U.S. consumer shipments grew more than 100 percent in the quarter, and about one-half of those sales were generated online, through www.dell.com .
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Last year we dramatically extended the capabilities of the Dell direct business model through opportunities with the Internet, ... Our online customer mix moved from a predominantly consumer-oriented base to a far broader base including business and government customers.
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We have found through internal growth and a disciplined focus on our direct model and by partnering with the world's leading services companies, we can essentially see this growth in an internal fashion,
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Our second-quarter results and expectations for strong industry demand in the second half of the year keep us on track toward our goal of 30 percent full-year sales growth. There remains tremendous room for expansion in all product categories, customer groups and regional markets, and the fundamental advantages of our direct model are more compelling than ever.
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Our strong results continue to differentiate us from our competitors, several of which are attempting to imitate aspects of Dell's unique direct business model. We believe that our customers around the world recognize the Dell difference and increasingly appreciate the benefits, stability and strength of our direct model,
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Our unique direct business model has allowed us to take advantage of rapidly declining component costs and pass along savings to our customers.
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The key to our performance in the fourth quarter was focus. By remaining focused, we have helped our customers benefit from the superior performance, service and value that our unique direct model delivers.
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The idea was to sell computers directly to the end user, without the markup of the dealer ... have a lower level of inventory and a higher level of service,
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All companies use servers of various sizes. Servers represent a disproportionate amount of profit opportunity. That's why we're using our direct marketing model to bring (them to customers), ... Capital Ideas.
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We just shipped in the fourth quarter over 10 million PCs.
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We saw strength in our servers, notebooks and Internet sales, ... All the geographies were strong. I'd say we are firing on all cylinders.
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We're very much relying on gaining market share,
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We see a healthy industry in the year ahead, ... Major demand drivers, including processor transitions and component cost reductions, remain solid, and consolidation is separating top companies such as Dell from the rest of the field.
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These devices are not necessarily substitutes to the PC, but complementary. You can't find a Palm Pilot user who doesn't have a PC,