[cft]

Some basic Googling https://www.quora.com/What-great-companies-did-not-raise-ven...

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-197e2d2c5a20d31682ea09...

Apparently Dell had no external capital

[gnicholas]

posted too high in the thread? looks like a (very useful) response to a specific query below.