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Tech Billionaires Who Dropped Out of College

Sean Parker

Sean Parker founded the file-sharing program called Napster. It allowed users to share and stream digital music files. Sean was a maverick and world-class hacker and had from his teenage years been hacking into organizations and businesses across the world.

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He is in part genius, and in part, infamous for his cyber skills. He went on to found Plaxo and Airtime and served on the boards of various large companies, like Spotify and is on the Founder Fund. His net worth is estimated to be at 3.2$ billion.


Jack Dorsey

Perhaps you don’t know his name but there is a great chance that you have heard of Twitter. Jack in one of the founding members of Twitter and has a net worth of $2, 6 billion. Jack dropped out of NYU after transferring from the University of Science and Technology in Missouri.

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Originally Twitter was ridiculed and criticized as being a platform for self-absorbed and egoist people. However, with everyone from celebrities to presidents sharing their thoughts, it has become a socially and politically relevant platform. The micro-blogging platform amassed Jack and partners significant wealth when the company went public.


Paul Allen

Paul Allen, along with Bill Gates, is the co-founder of Microsoft. Both Paul and Bill went to Lakeside school, but Paul went on to attend the University of Washington before dropping out to work as a programmer.

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Paul was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and resigned from the company in 1983. He passed away in 2018. His net worth was estimated at over $19 billion.


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