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Higher education
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Jeff Bezos warns Gen Z to think twice before dropping out of college like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg: 'These people are the exception' | Fortune

Most college dropouts who become successful entrepreneurs are exceptions; finishing college and gaining experience at top companies increases odds of later entrepreneurial success.
Startup companies
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Why I dropped out of college to build an AI startup (and why most people shouldn't)

Accepted into Y Combinator as ChatGPT surged, a Duke student left university to scale an AI startup, despite deep emotional cost to his single mother.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

I dropped out of college to build my business. Then Mark Cuban invested in my idea.

Before going to college, I lived in the Bay Area. I was surrounded by entrepreneurs and founders, so building a company didn't seem incredibly novel to me. But in 2018, I started a company of my own called Injective. We're a blockchain network that provides infrastructure for finance applications. We've raised over $50 million in funding and got Mark Cuban to invest in our vision.
Startup companies
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