Meet 10 College Dropouts Who Became Billionaires. One African Made it To The List!

Some people find themselves out of school due to unavoidable circumstances like lack of tuition fee. There is no reason for you to feel dejected or left behind by your peers because you don’t have a college degree as the following people have shown its possible to become a billionaire without a college degree.

1. Bill Gates

He is the Microsoft founder and is officially the richest man in the world. After two years in college he decided it was time for him to start his own company with a friend of his who was also a college drop out. Microsoft is the biggest technology company in the world.

2. Mark Zuckerberg

He is the Facebook CEO and the youngest billionaire in the world, he dropped out of Harvard to promote his social networking platform; Facebook.

3. Richard Branson

He dropped out of school at the age of 16 and went ahead to start his own company which later grew into Virgin empire. The empire comprise of virgin Mobile phones, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, and now, the Virgin Galactic space tourism agency.

4. Oprah Winfrey

Although she later earned her college degree, Oprah dropped out of school to co-anchor an evening news program. Now she has her own TV channel, radio program, magazine, book club, and most importantly, her image brand.

5. Steve Jobs

He is the late apple founder. One semester in university convinced him that the tuition was too much for his parents, and he dropped out. He dropped out and after working for a while he founded Apple, which is one of the biggest companies in the world.

6. Michael Dell

You have probably seen the Dell laptops and Computers; well he is the CEO and the very name behind those computers and laptops all over the world. As a teenager, he often took apart and rebuilt computers. By the time he was in college, he combined his interests in technology to start his own company, it allowed him to build and sell computers directly to customers. It was so successful that he left college to focus on it full time.

7. Orji Uzor Kalu

This is one of the richest men on the soil of Africa. This billionaire was chased out of college because of his participation in a student’s protest. Instead of getting knocked down over the issue; he started trading on palm oil and from that humble beginning, he grew his business into a conglomerate ‘Slok Group.’

8. Cosmos Maduka

Nigerian Elementary school dropout and billionaire founder of the Coscharis Group. He became an automobile apprentice at age 7 to escape Poverty.

9. Walt Disney

If you are a fan of cartoons and animation you are probably familiar to this name. Walt is the most influential animator because of his creativity with cartoons. He dropped out of high school at 16 and founded Walt Disney; a company which now has an annual revenue of about $30billion.

10. Henry Ford

Henry Ford is an automobile billionaire was born in abject poverty. He never saw the four walls of school but he went on to build Ford Motor Company and become one of the richest men that ever lived.

Which Kenyan college dropout do you know and is a billionaire?

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