Dell

Founder: Michael Dell

Founded: November 4, 1984

Worth then: A dorm room and an unfinished degree

Worth now: Third largest PC maker

Michael Dell was a pre-med student at the University of Texas when he started Dell. In 1984 with $1000 and an idea he founded Dell. Starting at the university he attended he worked upgrading computers in the labs before applying for a vendor license so he could win bids on contracts for the State of Texas. He would go on to win these bids by not having the overheads of a store. By the age of 27, Dell was the youngest CEO to have his company listed in the Fortune 500 corporations. Soon after in 1996 Dell started selling over the internet and not long after that were raking in over $1million in sales every day. In 2010 Michael Dell’s net worth was an estimated $14billion.

From making a small computer in his dorm room to being one of the largest PC makers is no joke at all.

Though these ventures later became companies, there were other small ventures which had their ideas during college and sustained them to become giants in what they do now >>>