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How a computer mogul and a private-equity rising star paved the way for the Dell-EMC merger.
Everythings bigger in Texaseven the deals. Just ask Michael Dell, founder and CEO of his namesake company, once the largest PC maker in the country. In 2013, along with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, he took Dell private, a transaction worth $24.4 billionthe largest leveraged buyout since the Great Recession. The sequel, two years later, was even grander: Dell helped orchestrate a $67 billion merger with EMC
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