And some of those are badly misrepresented. Gates didn't drop out of college because he smoked too much pot, or was too lazy. He was getting excellent grades a

And some of those are badly misrepresented. Gates didn't drop out of college because he smoked too much pot, or was too lazy. He was getting excellent grades and his teachers were very impressed. It was because he already had a business going, and wanted to concentrate on that. Plus, as a business owner nobody was going to require him to have a degree, so it didn't really matter so long he had the skills he needed for his business. Also, his parents were rich and supportive, and no doubt would have supported him if he had failed. He'd have no trouble getting back to Harvard had the business not worked out. That's a very different kind of "dropout" than most.