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Michael Dell ISBN 000653127X
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Michael Dell ISBN 000653127X
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This book by Michael Dell has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: David Senra, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-09-28 and the most recent from 2025-09-24. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“Michael does autobiography which he narrates by the way the audible is excellent. I listened to it three times before I read it to do the episode on it.”— David Senra
The guest here is David Senra: Host of the Founders podcast, who reads and breaks down biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs; launching a new interview show on Patrick O'Shaughnessy's Colossus network. David Senra explains how studying 400+ entrepreneur biographies revealed the patterns, archetypes, and obsessions that separate extreme winners.
“you wrote your first book in 1998 so you've taken a 20-plus year break on the books”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Michael Dell: Founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, which he started with $1,000 and grew into a company with over $100 billion in annual revenue. He is the author of 'Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader.'. Michael Dell tells Tim Ferriss the raw story of taking Dell private, beating Carl Icahn, and building a company that plays nice but wins.
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