Life isn't about getting vocational training for money. At the least, an education (university or not) could teach you that there are ways to state your point b

Life isn't about getting vocational training for money. At the least, an education (university or not) could teach you that there are ways to state your point beyond using "fuck" in the title of a blog post: if you're talking about "selling" yourself, you may start off by not being insulting. Second, if you're just talking about vocational training and job preparation, a college degree in some field and from some schools can show that you have the capacity for approaching a topic with mathematical rigour and know the fundamentals of Computer Science (as opposed to fashionable frameworks and APIs). There are many other ways to do that - but a college education also buys you a great deal of free time (something that hackers in college probably won't realize until they're done), exposure to smart people and new ideas; finally it's a chance to fulfill other intellectual curiosities (take courses in other sciences, history, philosophy, so forth). Third, starting your business does not conflict with going to college. More often than often than not, I've seen people who have never attended a university (as opposed to attended and dropped out when they had something more compelling) simply take full time jobs right away, usually in systems administration or web front-end development. Both of these are essential and great skills to have (especially in a start-up), but you can't build a product on that expertise alone: you can build a web design or systems administration consulting shop, but consulting won't (usually) bring you an exit.