Michael Dell: Between A Round Rock (TX) And A Hard Place

Over the 25 years Dell was public, it made Michael Dell a very rich man on the Forbes 400 and a billionaire to boot. But shareholders never fared so well. Since the stock peaked in the tech bubble over 60 in 2000, it fell to single digits last year. Even with a Go Shop provision in the go private offer and months of complaining by shareholders including Carl Icahn, the price offered rose by a grand $0.25 since February. Dell's path included illegal payments, lots of tax breaks for creating U.S. ...