> Many of the wealthiest billionaires dropped out of school
It's of course a very nice story that they "dropped out of school", but the truth is more nuanced than that. For example Bill Gates and Elon Musk had school as a backup plan in case their business would fail.
So it's not that they dropped out of school to pursue their business, they suspended their school for their business, and still had it as a backup plan. Very different! If their business wouldn't have worked, they would continue their school (which at that point was already an investment, 3 years for Bill Gates if I remember correctly).
Agree completely, but just wanted to point out that Elon Musk has an ivy league bachelor's degree. What he dropped out of was his Ph.D. program, which is more akin to quitting a job than "dropping out of school".
Also, Bill Gates took really intense courses at Harvard. For example, he took Math 55, which appears to cover more in a single semester than a lot of applied mathematics programs cover in four years.
It's of course a very nice story that they "dropped out of school", but the truth is more nuanced than that. For example Bill Gates and Elon Musk had school as a backup plan in case their business would fail.
So it's not that they dropped out of school to pursue their business, they suspended their school for their business, and still had it as a backup plan. Very different! If their business wouldn't have worked, they would continue their school (which at that point was already an investment, 3 years for Bill Gates if I remember correctly).