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True, although Steve Jobs didn't have a college degree. Bill Gates dropped out too. We have to be careful to avoid survivorship bias though. reply
by Veen 8y ago
True, although Steve Jobs didn't have a college degree. Bill Gates dropped out too. We have to be careful to avoid survivorship bias though.
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- collyw 8y agoWorth noting that in those days a far smaller percentage of the population were university educated.
- mikerg87 8y agoYour credentials matter a lot less when you are the founder.
- commandlinefan 8y agoI always got the impression that, at least in Jobs' case, he was the founder _because_ he didn't have a degree - i.e. he had nowhere else to go.
- johan_larson 8y agoJobs had a steady job at Atari before he left to start Apple. I seem to remember he offered the first version of the Apple I (or maybe II?) to HP while he was there, but they turned him down.
- skinnymuch 8y agoI thought Jobs was gone and it was Woz who did
- mrwww 8y agoyea but they dropped out of ivy league schools... that's not the average dropout
- saagarjha 8y agoReed is not an Ivy League school.