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Jan 19, 2023 · Here is a list of 33 successful people who never went to or finished college: 1. Bill Gates. As the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. He dropped out of Harvard after two years to start Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. 2.
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- Steve Jobs. There probably aren't too many people out there that aren't familiar with the story of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Although he did graduate from Homestead High School in 1972, he ended up dropping out of Reed College, an education his parents could barely afford.
- Richard Branson. Richard Branson's net worth is said to be roughly $4.9 billion. Founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Records, Virgin Mobile and other Virgin brands, Branson never completed high school, and dropped out at 16 years of age.
- Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas, founder and CEO of fast-food empire Wendy's, dropped out of high school to work full time at the Hobby House Restaurant in Fort Wayne, Ind.
- David Green. David Green, whose net worth is nearly $6 billion, never went to college. This founder of Hobby Lobby -- a chain of arts and crafts stores -- has a high school diploma, but passed on higher education to start his own home-based business in 1970 on a $600 loan.
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- Ross Alex. Alex dropped out of college to become a real estate entrepreneur who’s now created two six-figure real estate businesses.
- Yashar Ali. Ali is a journalist responsible for breaking some of the biggest news stories in recent years from the Fox News sexual harassment scandal to Harvey Weinstein, to the Russia investigation, but he never went to college.
- Paul Allen. When you think of Microsoft, you probably don’t think of Paul Allen. But like Gates, Allen dropped out of college after two years to pursue computer programming.
- Mary Kay Ash. Ash was the founder of Mary Kay, the multi-level cosmetics marketing company, which today has over $3.6 billion in revenue per year. Ash didn’t go to college because her family couldn’t afford to send her.
Oct 17, 2022 · Katy Perry Dominated The Music Industry Without A Degree. Katy Perry didn't exactly fail school, but she's not known to have excelled in it, either. Having said that, she's not exactly a fit for the famous people who failed school category. Perry left school at age 17, halting her schooling to follow her dreams of a career in the music industry.
- Ellen DeGeneres. ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" features a week of guest hosts filling in for Jimmy, starting Monday, October 30. The guest host for Wednesday, November 1 was Channing Tatum with guests Ellen DeGeneres ("The Ellen DeGeneres Show") and panelist and musical guest P!nk.
- Ted Turner. Ted Turner speaks at UNICEF's Evening for Children First to Honor Ted Turner on March 30, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ben Rose—Getty Images for UNICEF.
- Anna Wintour. Editor in chief of Vogue Magazine, Anna Wintour, attends the Nina Ricci show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2018 on September 29, 2017 in Paris, France.
- Larry Ellison. Billionaire Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corp., delivers a keynote speech at the New Economy Summit 2015 in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 8, 2015.
Feb 19, 2023 · 6. Richard Branson. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, commercial astronaut and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies in various fields today. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age.
Mar 29, 2024 · It wasn't for lack of trying — entertainment mogul David Geffen attended multiple colleges during his academic journey, including Santa Monica College, Brooklyn College and the University of Texas at Austin, but he did not complete his degree at any of the schools, attributing his challenges to dyslexia.
