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  "id": 2740432,
  "title": "'I was fifteen and riveted': What Steve Jobs said that hooked a young Michael Dell",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/i-was-fifteen-and-riveted-what-steve-jobs-said-that-hooked-a-young",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-23T06:21:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/when-a-fifteen-year-old-michael-dell-met-steve-jobs-says-i-didnt-know-that-in-five-years-we-will-not-be-/articleshow/133435474.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In his memoir Play Nice But Win, Michael Dell recalls meeting Steve Jobs in the spring of 1980 at a Houston computer user group, aged just fifteen. Jobs, then 25 and weeks from Apple's IPO, spoke about personal computers revolutionising the world. Dell writes he was riveted, and could not have imagined that in five years, Steve Jobs and he would be colleagues and friends, long before their famous…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}