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Dell computers might not be flashy, but there’s nothing dull about Michael Dell right now.<\/p>\n

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The founder and CEO of Dell Technologies is proving that tech fortunes don’t have to be fleeting. Thirty years after he first became a billionaire, Dell is now the fifth-wealthiest person on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.<\/p>\n

The personal-computing pioneer has leapfrogged Warren Buffett, Jensen Huang, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison on the rich list this year.<\/p>\n

His net worth has surged by around $77 billion since the start of January; only Elon Musk has gained more in that timeframe.<\/p>\n

Dell’s $216 billion net worth as of Thursday’s close makes him one of six people with a $200 billion-plus fortune, along with Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, and Ellison.<\/p>\n

His wealth surge has been fueled by a 225% jump in his company’s stock price this year, which has raised its market value to $281 billion \u2014 more than Wells Fargo, Palantir, or IBM are worth.<\/p>\n

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Dell owns about 41% of the eponymous PC maker, which has tapped into the AI boom by selling a “full stack” of computing infrastructure to run AI models, including workstations, servers, storage, networking, and services.<\/p>\n

Strong customer demand was evident in Dell’s first-quarter earnings. Net revenue soared 88% from the same quarter last year to a record $44 billion, as net sales of AI-optimized servers rocketed 757% to over $16 billion. Operating income more than tripled to $3.7 billion.<\/p>\n

Dell isn’t the only tech titan to see his fortune balloon in 2026. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has added more than $300 billion to his net worth and even briefly became a trillionaire after SpaceX went public earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Page and Brin, the cofounders of Google-parent Alphabet and the world’s second- and third-richest people, are up more than $23 billion each thanks to their company’s climbing stock price.<\/p>\n

Other centibillionaires have fared much worse. Ellison, Zuckerberg, Ballmer, and Arnault have seen roughly $40 billion wiped off each of their fortunes as investors have soured on some tech and luxury names.<\/p>\n

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