Did you know some of the world’s wealthiest individuals didn’t graduate from college? Here are 10 billionaires who are college dropouts.
Bill Gates left Harvard University in 1975 at the age of 19 to pursue his vision of creating Microsoft. He later became the pioneer in the tech industry.
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Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College in 1972 after just one semester. He then co-founded Apple, which revolutionised the personal computer and mobile phones.
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Jan Koum dropped out of San Jose State University while working at Yahoo. In 2009, he co-founded WhatsApp and later sold it to Facebook for $19 billion.
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Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in 2004 at the age of 20 to focus on Facebook, which grew to become world’s largest social media platform.
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Larry Ellison left the University of Chicago in 1966 and co-founded Oracle in 1977, building it into a global leader in database software and cloud services.
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Michael Dell dropped out of the University of Texas in 1984 at the age of 19. He then founded Dell Technologies that transformed the personal computer industry.
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Richard Branson dropped out of school at 16 in 1966 to create Virgin Group, which expanded into a global business with ventures across the music, airline, and healthcare industries.
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Evan Williams dropped out of the University of Nebraska in 1994. He co-founded Blogger in 1999 and later Twitter in 2006.
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Travis Kalanick dropped out of UCLA in 1998 to pursue business ventures. He co-founded Uber in 2009, transforming the transportation industry.
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