Saurav Pandey
October 21, 2024
He left Reed College in Oregon after just one semester because he ran out of money, as he mentioned in a speech in 1991.
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Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard University in 2005 to concentrate on developing Facebook, which was just starting to grow at the time.
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Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, admitted at the University of Texas at Austin’s graduation in 2019 that he left the school after two semesters to focus on his computer business.
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Steve Wozniak, another co-founder of Apple, stated that he didn’t drop out of the University of California, Berkeley. Instead, he took a year off to save money for school and didn’t return for over ten years.
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Tiger Woods, the famous golfer, left Stanford University after his sophomore year to pursue his athletic career. He later expressed that his only regret was not spending another year at Stanford.
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Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and Square, left Missouri University of Science and Technology in his junior year for a job in New York and then left New York University just before graduation to start a venture on the West Coast.
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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg dropped out of California State University, Long Beach in the late 1960s to work in television.
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Bill Gates left Harvard after his sophomore year and later dropped out for good after his junior year to focus on Microsoft, the company he co-founded in 1975.
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Oprah Winfrey left Tennessee State University in 1975. After a decade and after starting her talk show, she returned to finish her degree, graduating in 1986.
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Dustin Moskovitz dropped out of Harvard with his roommate Mark Zuckerberg to work on Facebook.
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