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99.999999999% of college dropouts do not become billionaires.

• lapcat 3y ago
  99.999999999% of degree recipients do not become billionaires either. The point is that using a degree as decisive evidence of "can follow rules/policies and track towards a long-term goal with success" is kind of ridiculous. Especially if you're evaluating a candidate with years of actual job experience. (And it would be quite hypocritical if a hiring manager for a company founded by a dropout disrciminated against droputs.)
• bratwurst3000 3y ago
  You have one 9 too much. We are only 8 billion not 80 billion. ;). But the number seems right.
• sokoloff 3y ago
  For that to be mathematically correct, if we consider the underestimate case where Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are the only billionaire dropouts currently alive, that would require 200 billion total college dropouts to be currently alive. Out of the 8 billion total people on Earth. Forbes did a study (of sorts) that estimated 44 billionaires of the 362 they had listed were dropouts. That suggests a need to have 4.4 trillion dropouts. Order of magnitude, it's somewhere around a million times more common for a college dropout to become a billionaire than your claim.