The Dorm Room
Austin may be a tech hot spot, and the University of Texas may pump a steady stream of graduates into the industry every year, but Michael Dell, the founder, chairman and CEO of his namesake company, only spent one year at UT, and that was the end of his college education. Dell famously founded the company in his dorm room, and dropped out after his freshman year to concentrate on running what was then known as PCs Limited.
