College Dropouts and Becoming Billioneirs

Mark Zukerburg, Bill Gates and Matt Damon are harvard dropouts. I am not sure there is any person outside congo jungle, republic of china or North korea, who haven't heard the name of one of the above people. They are so famous, and insanely rich, that combined wealth of the former two tech giants would be more than the budget of most of the countries in the world. Consider the following list of people who are college dropouts. You must be reading this article, only because of things they started developing.

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List of famous college Dropouts

1. Steve Jobs – Dropped out of Reed College

   • Co-founder of Apple Inc.

   • Revolutionized personal computing, smartphones, and digital media.

2. Bill Gates – Dropped out of Harvard University

   • Co-founder of Microsoft

   • Consistently ranked among the world’s richest individuals.

3. Mark Zuckerberg – Dropped out of Harvard University

   • Co-founder and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook)

   • Youngest self-made billionaire in history at one point.

4. Larry Ellison – Dropped out of the University of Illinois and University of Chicago

   • Co-founder of Oracle Corporation

   • Billionaire tech mogul known for enterprise software.

5. Michael Dell – Dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin

   • Founder of Dell Technologies

   • Built one of the largest tech companies in the world.

6. Evan Williams – Dropped out of the University of Nebraska

   • Co-founder of Twitter and Blogger

   • Played a key role in shaping social media.

7. Jan Koum – Dropped out of San Jose State University

   • Co-founder of WhatsApp

   • Sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion.

8. Travis Kalanick – Dropped out of UCLA

   • Co-founder of Uber

   • Changed the transportation and gig economy landscape.

9. David Karp – Dropped out of high school (not just college)

   • Founder of Tumblr

   • Sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.

10. Richard Branson – Dropped out of high school

    • Founder of the Virgin Group

    • Built a global brand in music, airlines, and space travel.

Is it a trend that so many dropouts, have become successful in life? Or is it just a random thing which we do not know the true scale? There may be more criminals who are dropouts of colleges and universities than billioneirs. But still, I would say there is some fascinating philosophy behind what we observe from these dropouts.

Criminals and Billioneirs.

I am not arguing latter group of rare individuals are invariably associated with former group. I just observe the pattern, that a dropout from a college is unlikely going to be a normal individual. By means, normal doesn't mean good. More like a person who has less regard for the formal education, and system of rules of the society. What does this mean?

If you excellence in your acedemics, one day you might end up being a professional. Mind you this will take more than half of your life. And you will end up doing a respectable job. It can be from a scientist to a pilot. And you can confine yourself to this frame you have created for yourself framed by others and once you built this wall, there would be no "outside". The tunnel vision will make you see the world in a specific way that you will die without even understanding the true potential of a human consiciousness. But, if you are wise there is another path. And that path is mostly seeked by college dropouts.

The fundemental to this path is to understand, that it is just a "Game", like the president Trump once said. The rules of this game were set, by other humans. The punishments of breaking the law are real, they might even make you sit on an electric chair. But even said that, you should understand, it is not real. How can we make rules for a life, which we even did not know how to come by. We just believe in them. When you know this as a fact and know it by first hand, you will realise there is nothing to lose in life. Nothing is a faliure.

When you realise the zero of life, nothing is a faliure.

Consider what it means..

Having a cancer is not a faliure

Having kids, or no kids doesn't matter

Having a billion dollers doesn't mean anything, same as having a billion in debt.

Being able to travel, or just stuck in a wheelchair doesn't make a restriction.

What happened yesterday doesn't make sense, same as tomorrow.

It doesn't matter rain, sun or a storm.

And you are out of the circle of life, where at peace, freedom from everything which are created by the words of the illusionary mind. And here at this place you can do whatever you like, guided by your own ethical principles. So, no wonder "A college dropout" is a faliure to majority of us in the society while it did not matter to long list of individuals in the above list. However, I suggest what you do with knowledge to be something ethical, and wise, not to end up in a prison like Elezabeth Holmes at Theranos( Another college Dropout).