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Paul Allen, founder and chairman, Vulcan
Type of
Business: Media, telecommunications
Education:
Dropped out of Washington State College after two years
Fun fact:
He persuaded Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. They later founded Microsoft
(MSFT) together.
Richard Branson, CEO, Virgin Group
Type of
Business: Travel, radio, TV, music, venture capital
Education:
No college degree
Fun fact:
He became an entrepreneur at age 16 with the creation of Student magazine.
Michael Dell, founder, chairman, and CEO Dell (DELL)
Type of
Business: Computers
Education:
Attended University of Texas, Austin; did not finish.
Quote:
“When I started our company, it was very much an idea outside of the
conventional wisdom, and if there were people telling me that it wasn’t going
to work, I wasn’t really listening to them.”
Bill Gates, co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation; Chairman, Microsoft (MSFT)
Type of
Business: Philanthropy. Software.
Education:
Dropped out of Harvard
Fun fact:
As a schoolboy, he created a program that allowed people to play tic-tac-toe on
the computer.
Dean Kamen, Founder and chairman, Segway
Type of
Business: Motor vehicles
Education:
Dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Fun fact:
Kamen founded FIRST, a robotics competition for high school students.
Henry Ford never graduated high school, but went on to
start one of the largest automobile manufacturing companies in the world, Ford
Motor Company. He’s also credited as being the first auto manufacturer to use
an assembly line, completely revolutionizing the way cars were produced. The
assembly line allowed Ford sell cars at a lower price but the company kept
making higher profit because sales volumes continually increased. Time called
Ford one of the most influential people of the 20th century.
John
D. Rockefeller Sr., a high school dropout, became the first American billionaire and is
said to be the richest man in history. He founded Standard Oil, the first
multinational corporation, in 1870. The Supreme Court broke up the company in
1911 stating the company had violated anti-trust law creating a monopoly.
Steven
Spielberg, is
a movie director and producer. Spielberg was denied acceptance to film
school and dropped out of California State University in Long Beach. He
co-founded DreamWorks, a major film studio that’s produced several of the
highest grossing movie hits and Academy award winning films. Spielberg ranked
#205 on Forbes 2009 list of world billionaires with a net worth of $3 billion.
He was later granted an honorary degree by USC in 1994.
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