by Geoff Whittington- Dell Inc. Founder and CEO, Michael Dell, grew up in this house. Dell Inc. is a multinational information technology corporation founded by Dell on November 4, 1984. In 1992, at the age of 27, Dell became the youngest CEO in history to lead a Fortune 500 company. At age eight he sent away for high school equivalency testing to earn his diploma but decided to wait and graduate with his class at Memorial High School in 1983. Dell's net worth is reported to be $13.5 billion.