5 college dropouts that were technical billionaires

Here are five of the richest technical billionaires who have broken off college:

Dustin Moscovitz

Moskovitz, co -founder of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg's former roommate in Harvard, was made available to scale Facebook.

Moskovitz, a major of computer science, quickly dominated a new programming language to expand the platform to other schools. He moved to Palo Alto with Zuckerberg, where he became the first Chief Technology Officer, so Business Insider. After leaving Moscovitz Facebook, he was a co-founder of Asana, a workflow software company. In 2011 he became the youngest homemade billionaire.

Its net assets are 16.3 billion US dollars from May 9th according to May 9th ForbesMost of it comes from his 2% participation to Facebook.

Michael Dell

Michael Dell. Photo of X

“I have just seen enormous opportunity,” said Dell in his autobiography “directly from Dell”. “At the University of Texas it was very easy to take out a semester and then come back if you wanted. The combination of these two things told me it was time to suspend.”

Dell bumped into Austin in Austin from the University of Texas in his first year to concentrate on the sale of personnel computers. In 1984 he founded PC's Limited, which later Dell, Inc.

Dell's company developed into one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world, and today its estimated net assets are 101.9 billion US dollars.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates. Photo by Gates' Facebook

Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, left Harvard University to build its tech empire. As a 20-year-old student, he said that he had “a great time” on college and had to fight with the decision. Even after he had co-founded Microsoft with his high school friend Paul Allen in 1975, he still hoped to return and conclude his conclusion, according to US news channels CNBC.

Today he is 113 billion US Yahoo finance. Despite his success, Gates leaned against the plan of his youngest daughter Phoebe to leave Stanford University to found her own tech company Phia that started her last month.

A renowned philanthropic, Gates, together with his ex-wife Melinda French Gates uses his fortune to combat poverty and illness worldwide. Recently, Gates promised to donate 99% of his assets over the Gates Foundation in the next 20 years.

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison, co -founder and CTO of Oracle. Photo of X

Ellison, co -founder and CTO of Oracle, departed both the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago. Nevertheless, he built Oracle into the second largest software company in the world with a market value of $ 517.43 billion, as reported by the Financial News website Investopedia.

Ellison is now worth $ 187.3 billion. In an interview with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, he said about his journey: “I never visited computer science lessons in my life.” “I worked a job as a programmer. I was mostly autodidactic. I just picked up a book and started programming.”

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. Photo by AP

Zuckerberg, co -founder, chairman and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook), left Harvard after his second year to concentrate on the construction of Facebook, which he started with Moscow from his dormitory.

Zuckerberg's net assets are astonishing 206.7 billion US dollars. He has about 13% of the shares of Meta, and in 2015 he and his wife Priscilla Chan, whom he met in Harvard, promised 99% of their meta pile about their lives.

In a recent interview, Zuckerberg questioned whether the universities are preparing students for today's labor market and found that college can be a formative “social experience”, but possibly weigh up the value against the costs. “It was, so to speak, this taboo matter, of which you would have to be as possible, maybe not everyone has to go to college because there are many jobs that do not require it,” said Zuckerberg. “But I think people are probably a little more of this opinion than maybe 10 years ago.”