1 By partnering closely with NVIDIA, Dell successfully secured a front-row seat on the AI wave.
2 By backing Donald Trump, Dell gained political support and substantial government orders.
3 By distancing the company from China and giving up part of the Chinese market, Dell earned strong trust from Trump and his allies.
4 Through quiet but decisive and continuous layoffs, Dell has consistently reduced costs.
5 By shifting operations toward India, Dell has maintained product competitiveness.
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@1qb well said
MD is the modern day robber baron.
He hasn't been relevant in over 10 years. His success is penny pinching at the expense of his employees.
No one under 50 voluntarily buys a dell computer. Dell is mainly used for cheap/low-wage support kiosks and help desks.
He's a born grifter. He wouldn't make it on the list of top 200 influential CEOs. If you are going to fanboy a business leader you can do so much better than MD.
That's a fact.
Yes, he’s successful but the last time Dell went public he decided he would not share the rewards with those who helped him get where he is. No ESOP, etc.
And if you ask most employees about their RSUs you will be met with a blank stare.
OP make sure you send this throat-post to your boss so it can be forwarded up the line so Mr. Dell can see it and give you the beej you deserve.
ordinary man claims billionaire has been “very successful” - more on this story, coming up at the top of the hour
I work in fed, specifically DoD, I am not sure how he bought any deals. We don’t have any directed awards and most conversations are still public cloud first. The FAR doesn’t really allow them to just give work to Dell because he paid for it.
@ OP
He made money alright, but he created problems that have never been addressed. One is VMware and the other one is an employees crisis.
On the VMware divestiture: A critical oversight was the sale of VMware to Broadcom, a move widely interpreted as abandoning Dell's commitment to enterprise solutions. The resulting pricing and licensing restructuring has stranded thousands of organizations unable to absorb the steep upgrade costs, leaving many locked into legacy vSphere 6.7 or 7.x environments with no viable migration path. The feedback from the field is consistent: these companies view the transition as a breach of trust, and many have explicitly terminated their business relationship with Dell, redirecting capital that would have funded infrastructure refreshes elsewhere. The transaction may have delivered short-term financial gains, but it came at the cost of long-term customer loyalty.
On the employee crisis: There is a severe and escalating talent crisis within Dell that leadership appears unwilling to address. Employees are expected to maintain expertise across rapidly evolving, bleeding-edge technologies—a demand that requires substantial unpaid learning outside standard working hours. The workload routinely exceeds 40 hours per week without corresponding compensation, and management's response to pushback has been effectively coercive: accept the conditions or leave.
This environment has fostered widespread disengagement. Dell's workforce is increasingly treated as a disposable asset, with an apparent underlying strategy to replace existing talent as soon as operationally feasible (AI). The consequences are visible: experienced professionals are departing for competitors such as Amazon, Microsoft, HPE, Nutanix, Samsung, among others while remaining staff have disengaged, doing the minimum required to maintain employment. In my assessment, this constitutes a genuine organizational catastrophe. The deterioration is accelerating, and there is no indication that meaningful corrective action is forthcoming. Many people within the organization sent emails to management to let them know what was going on, and our feedback were ignored. Feedback in the company do not matter.
@OP You are up in the night
NVDA couldn't care less about Dell.
He bought his way into FED deals off the backs of his employees
He hasn't distanced himself from China one bit. All parts are still made in China. Without China, Dell would cease to exist.
He has continually placed his own profits above the success and well-being of his employees. He does not care about employees at all. That is obvious.
By shifting more operations to India, MD has proven once again he cares more about exploiting foreign low-cost labor than supporting an employee base in his own country.
MD is not a good man.
so, I read this as he is sc--wing over American workers to make a profit.
i'd 100% agree on nvidia - i've got a promax gb10, it's a fine an powerful little machine. havent felt this way about our products in very long time. i have no clue are we making $$$ on it or not, but this supersimple machine is just amazing - no bells and whistles but it's a workhorse, runs cool and cannot hear the fan. the specs are awesome too. not for everyone but still.