This is really interesting observation. Much like the author, I also dropped out partway through a degree to do startups. Boy was I surprised when I (US citizen

This is really interesting observation. Much like the author, I also dropped out partway through a degree to do startups. Boy was I surprised when I (US citizen) was stopped by Canadian immigration and asked to show my degree when I was arriving in Vancouver, BC for a meeting. This was in 1998. I later finished my degree thanks to Apple's then generous at the time support. I feel that I valued the education more as an older adult, but I also wish I had just completed my degree earlier, as it was a lot of work completing a degree and working full-time.