Michael Dell's Grounded Focus

Andrew Wilkinson shares his recent encounter with Michael Dell, highlighting how surprisingly down-to-earth the billionaire was.

"Michael Dell is what you hope capitalism is. I met him and he was the nicest, most down-to-earth, engaged, pleasant guy. I've met a lot of rich people, billionaires, multi-billionaires - he's worth 50 billion, so he's worth 10x any of the other people, and he was just really genuine and nice.

I asked him, 'What are your vices? How are you not like... do you have some weird libertarian island where you hunt and kill people? Are you building penis rockets to Mars? What are you doing?'

And he just goes, 'No, I got a couple nice houses, I've got a jet, I just like to work and build my business and I give it all away to my foundation.'

That's pretty cool."