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Top 10 Tech Billionaires Who Dropped Out and Won
These founders looked at their professors, looked at their dorm room projects, and decided the projects were more valuable than the degree. They were right — to the tune of trillions of dollars in combined company valuations. Your parents were wrong: sometimes dropping out IS the plan.
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