6 Indian College Dropouts Who Are Now Billionaires
Nirav Modi
Global Rank: 1342
Networth: $1 billion
Source of wealth: Jewellery
The billionaire, Nirav Modi came into limelight in 2010 when he created a Lotus necklace with rare 12.29 carat Golconda diamond and sold it at Christie's for $3.56 million. He moved to India in 1990 after quitting his studies at Wharton, and helped his uncle in diamond trade. He has his own salon in Mumbai that attracts a huge clientele due to his private collection artworks.
Bill Gates
Global Rank: 2
Networth: $67 billion
Source of wealth: Microsoft
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American businessman, a philanthropist and the chairman of world’s largest personal-computer software company, Microsoft. He co-founded the company with Paul Allen. Bill Gates is the world’s richest person in 2013, according to Bloomberg Billionaires List. Although he was a bright child and got enrolled at Harvard College in 1973, he dropped out of Harvard few years later and decided to start his own computer software company with Paul Allen.
