"Some of Big Tech's greatest success stories are from college dropouts. Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 from his Harvard University dorm room (and later dropped out). Bill Gates also left Harvard and cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. But Jeff Bezos, founder of the world's largest online retailer Amazon, said Zuckerberg and Gates are the "exception" to the idea that all major tech companies were founded by college dropouts and that a degree doesn't matter as much these days."
"Bezos, now the fifth-richest person in the world at a $234 billion net worth, founded Amazon when he was 30 years old after about a decade of work experience. Both Gates and Zuckerberg, on the other hand, were just 19 years old when they launched Microsoft and Facebook, respectively. Still, Zuckerberg is the fourth-wealthiest person in the world with a $250 billion net worth, and Gates is the 15th-richest at a $121 billion net worth. But Bezos says that "extra 10 years of experience actually improved the odds that Amazon would succeed.""
Some of Big Tech's most prominent successes came from founders who dropped out of college, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos describes those cases as exceptions and recommends that young people work at best-practices companies to learn fundamentals such as hiring and interviewing. Bezos founded Amazon at age 30 after roughly a decade of work experience and completing college, and he credits that extra experience with improving Amazon's odds of success. Gates and Zuckerberg launched companies at 19 and achieved extraordinary wealth, while Amazon grew to a multi-trillion-dollar market capitalization.
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