Bangalore: There has been an ever-growing debate about whether formal education or college degree is necessary to succeed in this world. A degree certainly will give you a higher paying job than those who don’t have a degree, but there are super successful world famous entrepreneurs who have proved that one can succeed without a degree. Let’s have a close look on such entrepreneurs.

Sir Richard Branson - Chairman, Virgin Group

Branson left school at the age of 16 to start his first successful venture which was a magazine called Student. Today his brand Virgin has over 400 companies including Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways. Branson is the 4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom with an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion. Apart from his successful business streak, he has also made several world record-breaking attempts. For his exceptional achievements, it is hard to believe that he is dyslexic.

Mark Zuckerberg – Founder and CEO, Facebook

Zuckerberg started Facebook from his dorm room at Harvard with roomates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes in 2004. He left college to concentrate on his site in his sophomore year. Having great interest in computers, he created a messaging program which he named ‘Zucknet’ when he was just 12. Before Facebook, he had developed projects like Synapse, Wirehog and Facemash. In 2010, he was Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”. His net worth now is $ 14.19 billion.