Cloud Computing: Michael Dell After buyout, ‘we’re all done with whiners’
December 16, 2013
Grazed from Dallas Morning Star. Author: Editorial Staff.
Michael Dell is buoyant these days. After a marathon campaign to buy the company he founded and take it private, Dell won approval from shareholders in September and completed the $25 billion deal in October. Dell Inc., which had grown to one of the biggest computer makers in the world during 25 years as a public company, is now privately held. Michael Dell, the 48-year-old company founder and CEO, owns about three-quarters of the company and his investment ally, Silver Lake Partners, owns the rest.
The result, Michael Dell says, is a company that has plenty of resources to expand its $57 billion business and the freedom to move quickly without second guessing from stock analysts and investors. “We’re excited; we’re energized,” he said. “We’re kind of at the start of a great new journey and we have our destiny in our control. We have incredible people…
We have great assets. We have a strong brand and we have tremendous opportunity and we couldn’t be more thrilled.”…
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