I decided to put up a list of entrepreneurs who dropped out of high school/college/university, I guess just a way to let you guys know that university doesn’t really determine your chances of being successful, at the same time, a lot of graduates also have become very successful, i will producing a list of top graduates that have money.
Dropped out of Harvard University to Pursue Facebook, Now a Billionaire..Good choice or not?
Ashley Qualls
17 years old high school dropout. Made more than $1 million. Earns as much as $70K a month Starting whateverlife.com
Ben Kaufman
The 23 years old entrepreneur missed much of his senior year in high school while getting his first manufacturing line running in China, has a startup called Kluster, dropped out of college to pursue a career in world domination, a process he began by creating funky iPod cases?
Currently Running Quirky www.quirky.com
David Karp
David Karp is a high school dropout who founded Tumblr.
Dustin Moskovitz
One of facebook’s co-founder, Dustin attended Harvard University as an Economics major for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work fulltime at Facebook.
Pete Cashmore
Pete is the CEO and founder of Mashable.com. He founded Mashable in a small Scottish town in 2005 at age 19.
Matt Mullenweg
He dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco from Houston, TX
Kristopher Tate
At age 16, Kristopher launched a photo sharing page, Zooomr. He finished high school five years early, notoriously known for driving his parents’ car from San Diego to Cupertino at the age of 16 to launch photo-sharing site Zooomr.
Aaron Levie
He dropped out of college and moved to Palo Alto, Calif., to run Box.net, his online file sharing start-up with his friend and co-founder.
Blake Ross
Co-creator of Mozilla Firefox browser, A Stanford dropout
Adam Hildreth
He left school at age of 16 to face Dubit limited full time.
Derek Johnson
Derek dropped of the University of Houston Entrepreneurial program, Derek has raised half a million dollars in investments for the company from private investors and the Bellingham Angel Group.
Fraser Doherty
Doherty left school at the age of 16 to work on his jams full time.
Mr. Doherty borrowed $10,000 from a bank to cover general expenses and more factory time to produce three flavors: Blueberry & Black Currant, Rhubarb & Ginger and Cranberry & Raspberry.
Patrick Collison
Software wizard. Dropped out of MIT during his freshman year to help two friends develop and eventually sell Auctomatic for millions of dollars.
Kieran O'neill
After running HolyLemon and PSU while at school, He decided to leave the university to work full-time on Playfire full-time