One of the most successful college dropouts: Steve Jobs, 55 the Apple co-founder is another billionaire college dropout. Jobs is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.  Jobs was born in San Francisco and was an adopted child like Larry Ellison.

 Jobs attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and frequently went to after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. In 1972, Jobs enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon and dropped out after one semester.

In 1976, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, with funding from multimillionaire A.C. “Mike” Markkula, founded Apple.

Jobs released a statement in early January, 2009 on Apple.com that he had been suffering from a “hormone imbalance” for several months. On January 14, 2009, in an internal Apple memo, Jobs wrote that in the previous week he had “learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought” and he announced a six-month leave of absence until the end of June 2009 to allow him to better focus on his health.

We wish Steve Jobs a speedy recovery!

So what gives, college is a must or not? This is my thinking, college helps unless if you’re Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, etc.

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