""It is possible to be 18, 19, 20 years old, drop out of college and be a great entrepreneur,""
""We have famous examples of that working, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. But these people are the exception.""
""a best practices company, somewhere where you can learn a lot of basic fundamental things, how to hire really well, how to interview.""
""I started Amazon when I was 30, not when I was 20, and I think that that extra 10 years of experience actually improved the odds that Amazon would succeed,""
A growing number of Gen Zers are foregoing college to start businesses, with some achieving rapid wealth. Jeff Bezos cautions that household-name dropout successes are rare exceptions rather than a reliable model. Bezos graduated from Princeton and worked on Wall Street before founding Amazon, and he recommends spending early career years at a best-practices company to learn fundamentals like hiring and interviewing. He argues that absorbing those lessons first increases the odds of entrepreneurial success and notes he started Amazon at age 30 after gaining valuable experience. Non-graduate Gen Zers now face the highest unemployment rate.
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