The Most Well-Known Young Dropout Millionaires

 There are two types of education, “traditional education” and “financial education.”  Unfortunately, most school systems aren’t teaching kids about money.    Yet, parents tell their kids to go to school, graduate in 4 years, and get a good paying job.  The kids leave with $100k in debt, settle for a job at Starbucks and spend the rest of their lives paying away their loans.  While this may be an appropriate pathway for certain professional fields: accounting, medical, law, etc…   .. Simply put, it’s not a practical use of time nor money for an entrepreneur.

Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, and Wendy’s Hamburgers are just a few of the thousands of businesses started by dropouts.

The most successful entrepreneurs tend to be self-educated.  Example: Henry Ford couldn’t go to school to learn how to make cars.  There weren’t any.  Mark Zuckerburg couldn’t learn about  how to create a social network.  They figure out want they want to do and learn what is necessary to accomplish it.

Below are some famous entrepreneurs who did not complete schooling.   

Rank	Name	Business	Dropped Out At	Age	Networth
1	Henry Ford	Ford Motor Company	16	Dead	$188 Billion (in 2009 dollars)
2	Bill Gates	Microsoft	19	53	$59 Billion
3	Larry Ellison	Oracle	20	64	$27 Billion
4	Sheldon Adelson	Las Vegas Sands Corp.	19	77	$26 Billion
5	Larry Page	Google	Graduated – Dropped out of Masters	35	$18.5 Billion
6	Kirk Kerkorian	Tracinda	12	91	$18 Billion
7	Michael Dell	Dell	19	43	$17.3 Billion
8	Paul Allen	Microsoft	20	56	$16.0 Billion
9	David Geffen	Geffen Records	21	65	$6.5 Billion
10	Steve Jobs	Apple	18	53	$5.4 Billion
11	Richard Branson	Virgin	16	58	$4.4 Billion
12	Takafumi Horie	Livedoor	22	35	$3.6 Billion
13	Ralph Lauren	Ralph Lauren	20	69	$3.6 Billion
14	Subhash Chandra Goel	Zee TV	12	58	$2.3 Billion
15	Jerry Yang	Yahoo	Graduated Stanford	40	$1.9 Billion
16	Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	19	23	$700 Million
17	Russell Simmons	DefJam	19	52	$340 Million
18	Matt Mullenweg	WordPress	18	25	$200 Million
19	Mahesh Murthy	Pinstorm & SeedFund	19	43	$200 Million
20	Jawed Karim	YouTube	21	30	$64 Million
21	Kevin Rose	Digg	21	31	$60 Million
22	Jared Isaacman	United Bank Card	17	26	$50 Million
23	Kevin Sproles	Volusion	18	26	$17 Million
24	Shawn Fanning	Napster	19	28	$7.5 Million
25	Scott Wainner	ResellerRatings	20	26	$7 Million
26	Rob Benwell	Blogging To The Bank	18	23	$5 Million
27	Graham Langdon	Entrecard	19	21	$3.2 Million
28	Kristopher Tate	Zooomr	17	20	$3 Million
29	Aaron Levie	Box.Net	20	23	$3 Million
30	Reed Caldwell	ServInt	19	32	$2.5 Million

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