He stands to learn far more by dropping out and trying to grow his business than by taking chemistry classes in high school. – If his business succeeds, he has

He stands to learn far more by dropping out and trying to grow his business than by taking chemistry classes in high school. – If his business succeeds, he has a great career ahead of him. – If his business fails, he will gain practical and useful skills & experiences that cannot be taught in school. Assuming he is a good self-learner (it appears he is), his skills will make him marketable to a variety of Silicon Valley companies (Facebook, Google, Mozilla, etc.) Worst case, in a year or two, he'll be able to write a great essay for college applications with a reasonable chance of getting into a top notch university. [I'm a 21yo college dropout & YC alum. Some of the things I worked on succeeded, and others failed.]