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minus-squaretal@olio.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-219 hours agoNot sure what you mean but IIRC, he dropped out to start Facebook. kagis Yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg Harvard University (dropped out) Incidentally, some other prominent tech founders did the same. Off the top of my head: Bill Gates (founder, Microsoft): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates Harvard University (dropped out) Michael Dell (founder, Dell Technologies): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell University of Texas at Austin (dropped out) Steve Wozniak (founder, Apple): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak University of Colorado Boulder (expelled) He started Apple later, didn’t directly do it from college. He did go back to university, years later, after he’d retired from Apple, and got his bachelor’s degree.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoLet’s not confuse anecdotes and statistics. Less than 10% of the USA’s richest dropped out of collage
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoYeah he dropped out but his parents were rich enough to get him in there in the first place. He’s had an entirely blessed life there’s nothing for him to be unhappy about.
Not sure what you mean but IIRC, he dropped out to start Facebook.
kagis
Yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
Incidentally, some other prominent tech founders did the same. Off the top of my head:
Bill Gates (founder, Microsoft):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Michael Dell (founder, Dell Technologies):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell
Steve Wozniak (founder, Apple):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
He started Apple later, didn’t directly do it from college.
He did go back to university, years later, after he’d retired from Apple, and got his bachelor’s degree.
Let’s not confuse anecdotes and statistics. Less than 10% of the USA’s richest dropped out of collage
Yeah he dropped out but his parents were rich enough to get him in there in the first place. He’s had an entirely blessed life there’s nothing for him to be unhappy about.