The company's early rapid growth resulted in disorganization. Sales jumped from $546 million in fiscal 1991 to $3.4 billion in 1995. Growth had been pursued to the exclusion of all else, but no one seemed to know how the numbers really added up. When Michael Dell saw that the wheels were beginning to fly off his nine-year-old entrepreneurial venture, he sought older, outside management help. He temporarily slowed the corporation's growth strategy while he worked to assemble and integrate a team of experienced executives from companies like Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, and Apple.