Michael Dell started his billion-dollar journey in a UT Austin dorm room in 1984; now he and Susan are giving $750 million to build an AI medical campus

US billionaire Michael Dell started his company from a UT Austin dorm room in 1984. Now, more than four decades later, Dell and his wife Susan are giving $750 million to build an AI-focused medical campus in Texas, taking their total donations to the university above $1 billion. In December 2025, Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to help fund 'Trump accounts'.