7 College Dropouts Who Became Billionaires

In a world full of people who run behind the idea of collecting degrees of courses and subjects from one of the top-notch universities of their work for a fact abroad countries there stand one of the most successful people who have proved to the world that a piece of paper cannot determine your future! Some of the most successful businesses and companies belong to the millionaires and billionaires, who, in fact, do not have a college degree and are college dropouts. They have also showcased their talents to the world through their intellect even though they didn’t go to an Ivy League school.

Here is a list of millionaires and billionaires who are college dropouts and went on to become one of the most successful people in the world!

1) Steve Jobs

Born in San Francisco, California, Steve Jobs is one of the biggest billionaires to ever exist. He is the founder of one of the most renowned brands in the world, Apple. He was enrolled in Reed College, Portland, Oregon. The businessman couldn’t afford the college’s tuition fee and ended up dropping out of college just after the first semester without informing his parents.

Steve believed spending money on an institution that seemed meaningless to him was a useless and sheer waste. He went on to develop his dream project through Apple and established the world’s leading technology company, Apple. Currently, Jobs stands at a net worth of $10.2 Billion!

2) Bill Gates

Born in Seattle, Washington, Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world and is always on the list of most successful people to ever exist. Gates was enrolled in Harvard Law School, Cambridge in the pre-law course with mathematics and graduate-level computer science subjects.

Within two years, Gates called it quits and left Harvard and went on to discover his dream through Microsoft in the year 1975. Under his guidance and leadership, Microsoft is worth over $1 trillion and is one of the most successful companies all across the globe. Currently, Gates stands at a net worth of $124 Billion!

3) Mark Zuckerberg 

Born in New York, United States, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest and youngest people to achieve the status of not just a millionaire but a billionaire. By the time Mark entered the world of university studies at Harvard, he had already become popular among his friends as a game developer and a programming prodigy.

He developed Facebook while sitting in his college dorm room for fun and left Harvard in the second year to complete his dream project. Zuckerberg currently owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, and many other applications. Currently, Mark Zuckerberg stands at a net worth of $116.2 Billion!

4) Michael Dell

Born in Texas, United States, Michael Dell is the founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the multinational technology company Dell technologies Inc. Dell started working multiple part-time jobs and started investing at a very young age. Since his parents wanted him to be a doctor he was enrolled in the University of Texas as a pre-med.

As a freshman, Michael got involved in an informal and mini business while on the university‘s campus. After earning a huge amount of revenue out of the business only less the first year, Dell called it quits from the university and dropped out in the first year of the course. Currently, Michael Dell stands at a net worth of $54.6 Billion!

5) Larry Ellison

Born in New York, United States, Larry Ellison is the co-founder, executive chairman, and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Oracle Corporation. Ellison was earlier enrolled in the University of Illinois as a pre-med student and later switched to the University of Chicago but decided to Drop out of the college without appearing for final exams post his encounter with a computer design.

Larry’s influence on relational database research gave the world One of the most successful database vendors, Oracle. Currently, Larry Ellison stands at a net worth of $129.1 Billion!

6) Travis Kalanick

Born in Los Angeles, California, Travis Kalanick is the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the most popular mobility service provider company, Uber. After serving as a tool to do salesman during his middle school and high school days, Travis was enrolled in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study Computer engineering and business economics.

During one of the final semesters of his course, Kalanick decided to drop out of UCLA to explore his career by working in a start-up, Scour. He went on to work for various companies and gained experience to develop Uber in 2009. Currently, Travis Kalanick stands at a net worth of $2.8 Billion!

7) Jack Dorsey

Born in Missouri, United States, Jack Dorsey co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the most popular microblogging and social media networking website Twitter and Square Inc. After occasionally working as a fashion model in middle school, Dorsey was enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology for two years and then transferred to your New York University but called it quits before the final semester to develop his start-up idea which gradually became popularly and came to be known as Twitter.

Currently, Jack Dorsey stands at a net worth of $13.6 Billion!

 

Edited by Anupama Roy