I dropped out of a top-ranked (undergrad) cs program my senior year (to work on my startup, natch). This was in '99/'00, and a lot of my classmates who graduate

I dropped out of a top-ranked (undergrad) cs program my senior year (to work on my startup, natch). This was in '99/'00, and a lot of my classmates who graduated took .com jobs in the valley. A lot of them ended of getting laid off, so I don't regret leaving. I would say some of what I learned in school has been helpful at my startup (OOP, testing/qa, and team stuff). But probably more of what I do day-to-day comes from independent learning, trial and error, and experience.