Bill Gates
Referring to Bill Gates, people often remember this as a philanthropist, a billionaire who dropped out of college midway, started his own business to establish a globally famous technology company and holds billions of dollars at the age of 10. thirty first.
The school Bill Gates dropped out of is Harvard University, which is always at the top of the world rankings. His academic ability is also not ordinary, Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973 with a SAT score (the standardized test for admission to some universities in the United States) of 1590/1600.
Gates started attending Harvard in 1973, but dropped out two years later to found Microsoft. His successes at Microsoft made him the richest man in the world for a long time. Currently, according to the Forbes list, he owns a fortune of $ 129 billion, the fourth richest in the world.
Although he did not complete his degree at Harvard, Bill Gates received an honorary degree from the school in 2007.
Mark Zuckerberg
Another tech billionaire who also dropped out of Harvard is Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg. The social network Facebook was founded in Mark’s dorm room at Harvard.
After the success of Facebook, Mark decided to drop out of school in year 2 to invest in his technology child. By the end of 2004, Facebook had attracted 1 million users and is now one of the largest social networks in the world.
According to the Forbes rankings, Mark ranks 15th richest people in the world with a total fortune of 67.3 billion USD.
Steve Jobs
The legend of Apple used to attend Reed University – America’s top art school. He dropped out of school after only one semester due to financial difficulties. Shortly after, Steve was also bored with his job, he decided to start Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak right in his garage. To date, Apple has become an empire in both computers and phones. At the time of Steve Jobs’ death, his net worth was estimated at $10.2 billion.
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey is one of the founders of Twitter. He attended Missouri University of Science and Technology for two years before transferring to New York University. However, Dorsey only attended here for about 2 years and then dropped out to found Twitter.
According to the list of the richest people in the world, Jack Dorsey ranked 418th, owning a fortune of $ 6.1 billion.
Michael Dell
He is the founder, chairman and CEO of the famous computer company of the same name Dell, one of the largest computer companies in the world.
Dell showed a passion for the computer business at a young age, but to please his parents who liked to be a doctor, he studied pre-med at the University of Texas in 1983. After only a year of studying, Dell realized the potential. Because of his great ability in the computer market, he decided to drop out of school to found a company called PC’s Limited.
He ranks 24th on the Forbes billionaires list with a net worth of $55.1 billion.
Travis Kalanick
The co-founder and former CEO of Uber Technologies studied at UCLA, but dropped out in 1998 to work for a peer-to-peer search engine firm called Scour. He then opened his own software company, and became the CEO of Uber in 2010. Currently, Kalanick’s fortune is estimated at $2.8 billion.
Larry Ellison
The owner of the software company Oracle even dropped out of college twice. He enrolled at the University of Illinois in 1962 but dropped out in sophomore year. In 1966 he continued to study at the University of Chicago but dropped out after one semester.
Since the 1970s, Ellison and his associates worked on a project to build a database for the US Intelligence Agency (CIA), which was named Oracle. This is also the beginning of a software engineering corporation that later became the second largest software giant on the planet, after Microsoft.
He held the role of CEO of Oracle for many years before gradually retiring to the position of Chairman and is now chief technology officer.
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