With Bill Gates leaving Microsoft and Steve Jobs' health in question, Michael Dell is the only other founder left of a big multi-billion dollars IT company. So naturally, the question of his succession came up during our visit to his company in Austin.

But when asked about it, Dell had a quite "down to earth" answer.

"When I talk to our board of directors, one of the questions they ask me from time to time is 'what happens if you get run over by a truck?' And it's a good question for a board to ask. And so the board knows exactly what to do if I get run over by a truck... I've gone to great length to hire a very talented team and this is a big company, yeah it 's got my name on it but I don't run the whole company by myself. .. It's an illusion that there are super star executives that do everything by themselves. It's not the way companies really work"

Well as you all know there are of course one exception to Michael Dell's comments about a "super star exec" running a company by himself and that's of course Steve Jobs. Also, I wonder if Apple's board ever asked those "good" succession plan questions to Jobs. But again he's a super hero, right? Dell's video response is right after the jump.