More Than Half of Companies Aren't Prepared to Use Today's Top Technologies

In 2013, Michael Dell shocked the world by taking his namesake computer company private in the largest leveraged buyout since the Great Depression. He shocked it again in 2015 when he announced that the Texas company would merge with Massachusetts' EMC, another tech industry stalwart, in one of the biggest deals in business, worth $67.7 billion. Today's Dell is a behemoth by every definition: $74 billion in annual revenue, 140,000 employees, and worlds away from the design-your-own-PC shop that its founder established as a teenager in 1984. Jeff Clarke has been there for nearly the entire ride. As Michael's right-hand man and possible successor, Clarke--who joined Dell in 1987 and is not to be confused with the Kodak CEO of the same name--has held countless roles at the company.