Top 10 Companies Founded By College Students

Shawn Fanning

As a graduate student at Northeastern University, Shawn Fanning started Napster as a peer-to-peer file sharing network in the late nineteen nineties. Although it has many legal troubles due to copyright issues, it was eventually acquired by Rhapsody, and made Shawn Fanning a millionaire.

 Michael Dell

Michael Dell started Dell as an undergraduate at Texas University in 1984. After receiving a $300,000 investment from his family, he decided to drop out of college and work on his company full time. Dell is now the number one shipper of PC monitors in the world.

Bo Peabody and Brett Hershey

The web hosting service Tripod was founded by two Williams College students in 1992. The site was initially created to help college students write resumes and apply for internships, but broadened its offering when it was bought by Lycos.

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