The league of drop-out billionaires

There have been several entrepreneurial success stories of brilliant minds that never went to college or dropped out of college. Some of the biggest names in the tech industry like Steve jobs Bill Gates and the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of college to start their own business and have achieved great success by doing so. Even young aspiring entrepreneurs prefer entering the field of startups to earn millions instead of spending hundreds of thousands on college education. “Pundits and hand-wringers love to claim that universities are the only path to a successful life. In truth, an inquisitive mind, rigorously applied to a deep-rooted problem can change the world as readily as the plushest academic lab,” Thiel tells in a press release. But these are merely few names which have made a mark and can talk about the dying importance of higher education in professional life. Though the founders ditched college, the enterprises still run on the shoulders of people who have topped universities and have huge certificates hanging on their cabin walls.