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#1. Henry Ford ( Ford) Net Worth $199 Billion – Dropped out at 16. Henry Ford dropped out at 16 and later founded Ford Motor Company in 1903. By 1908 he dropped the famous Model T and the assembly line, which has affected all of our lives, literally shaping the world. If he was still alive today, he’d be worth $199 Billion. #2.
- Steve Jobs. The Apple co-founder "may ... be one of the most famous dropouts in history," per Reed College, the liberal arts school in Oregon which Steve Jobs left after just one semester.
- Mark Zuckerberg. In 2017, the Facebook CEO was a commencement speaker at Harvard University. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of the Ivy League school in 2005 to focus on his then-young but growing social media platform.
- Alicia Keys. In the late 1990s, according to an Oprah magazine interview with singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, the future Grammy-winner left Columbia University after four weeks for a music deal with Columbia Records.
- Dick Cheney. According to the Yale Daily News, Dick Cheney dropped out of the Ivy League school twice. (Biography.com and other sources describe the departures as Cheney having "failed out.")
- Princess Diana. Although Diana Spencer, the princess of Wales, was an accomplished musician and philanthropist, she was not exactly a top student. She struggled at West Heath Girls’ School and even failed her O-level exams.
- Steven Spielberg. In the late 1960s, Steven Spielberg left Cal State Long Beach to focus on his TV directing career. After racking up three Oscars, he returned to school and eventually graduated from Long Beach in 2002.
- Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, is probably the most famous college dropout of all time. He attended Reed College in Oregon for just one semester before he had to leave due to a lack of funds.
- Quentin Tarantino. The award-winning movie master Quentin Tarantino said goodbye to Narbonne High in Harbor City, California, at age 15. He found himself working as an usher at an adult film theater while taking acting lessons when he could.
News. These 23 successful tech moguls never graduated college. Paige Leskin. May 26, 2019, 7:00 AM PDT. The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs never finished college. Julia Malakie/AP. College students...
Oct 4, 2019 · Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Approximately 1 in 8 billionaires on the 2018 ranking of the Forbes 400 wealthiest people in America was a...
Jul 1, 2015 · Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College after a semester. AP. The late Apple cofounder enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1972, but his tenure lasted only one semester, according to ...
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Apr 5, 2016 · 6 Famous Business People Who Dropped Out of School. 1) Bill Gates. (Source: ITPro) Bill Gates applied to just three colleges after graduating from high school: Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. He was accepted to all three. In the end, it was Harvard's campus that Gates chose to stroll onto in the fall of 1973.
