the.com/dell
Proof a kid building PCs in a dorm room can out-logistics an entire industry.
means A small, secluded, usually wooded valley.
from From Old English 'dell' (related to 'dale'), both descending from a Proto-Germanic root for a hollow or pit in the ground — the same ancient family that gives English 'dale' and German 'Tal' (valley). The word has stayed quietly rural for over a thousand years, long before a Texas teenager borrowed a version of it for a computer company.
- origin
- Michael Dell started it in his UT Austin dorm
- model
- sold PCs direct, skipping retail markup entirely
- comeback
- went private in 2013, public again by 2018
- scale
- now owns EMC, the biggest tech merger ever