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Is it right that mostly college drop out students run the biggest businesses in the world?
In Most of cases Mostly college drop out students successfully run biggest businesses in the world. Its a very amazing and wonderful.
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Mrudula Reddy
I would say that the fact that they were drop-outs forced them into entrepreneurship, as it's the only way they can become big. So I would rephrase the sentence and say that the most of the big businessmen and businesswomen are college dropouts rather that most of the college drop-outs being the biggest businessmen or businesswomen! :)
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Gates and Zuckerberg had the sorts of k12 education and enrichment their affluent families could provide, excelled in that to the degree that they started at Harvard and Princeton respectively, had ideas so compelling to them that they decided to interrupt their educations for it (either could have returned had their ventures failed), and had their families and connections to support their ventures.
They were not drops out unable to find good jobs who were forced into entrepreneurship. they had different preparation and opportunities.
Mrudula Reddy
I agree that Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are two people who interrupted their education to go ahead with their compelling ideas and wrere not forced into entrepreneurship, rather, they were looking for it. I see how many of these college-dropouts, though almost equally successful, had different reasons for dropping out. I think they got rich because they are extremely good at what they do and street-smart as well. I have recently read that a mass-based forrester research (from Cambridge) showed that 20% of America's millionaires have never even attended college. I have also read an article of the Forbes, which wrote about the rags-to-riches stories of 50 people. They were either entrepreneurs , or worked their way up after getting lucky. But as you said, they may have not been forced into entrepreneurship and must have had different reasons. They were nonetheless entrepreneurs. So I would say that a majority of successful college drop-outs from what I have read are entrepreneurs.
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Looking at this different idea, that the majority of successful college drop-outs were entrepreneurs, it depends very much on what you call successful and what you include within the category of entrepreneurs. Many people who never went to college are extremely happy with their lives. We probably have many such people here, some of whom had their own businesses and some not.
Looking forward, I have read that college is the new high school degree, in the sense that college is now expected for more opportunities within organizations. The expected earning stream of college-educated people is much higher than of those with less education, and the impact of the economic downterm has been much greater on those with less education.
But this is not the same as success.
Mrudula Reddy
College being a possible mandatory qualification for joining any organization is inevitable due to the increasing population and scarce jobs. Obviously, one with more qualifications is likely to get a job at any organization . And also, the impact of economic downterm on a person with less education in some way or the other is inevitable. But are you referring to all of the people who have received relatively less education, even people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. ?
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Mrudula Reddy