5.Michael Dell – $18.5 billion
The fifth on our list of richest drop out billionaires is Michael Dell.
Net worth: $18.5 billion
Profession: Founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Inc.
Fact: He has been involved with computers since the age of 7, when he is said to have gotten his first computer.
While he was attending the University of Texas, Michael Dell began making his own computers. He started selling them and soon the business became so successful, that he decided to drop out of college. By the age of 19, before leaving college, he had already made $80.000.
He started his business with a capital of just $1.000, and after his first year in business he had more than $6 million in sales, becoming the world’s greatest PC maker in 2001.
In 2012 Michael Dell was the 41st richest person in the world on Forbes list of billionaires.
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