Michael Dell Talks About Covid, China and Facing Carl Icahn

Michael Dell founded Dell when he was a 19-year-old college student. He ranks 24th on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index with a net worth of around $53 billion. Dell took his company private in 2013, then public again in 2018. His new book is called Play Nice But Win: A CEO’s Journey From Founder to Leader.

Companies spent a lot on IT during the pandemic. Do you have concerns about slowing growth, since much of that may have been an acceleration of spending that would have happened anyway?

If you think about hybrid work, that feels like it’s becoming more ...