Tech’s 10 Most Famous College Dropouts

Steve Jobs, a dropout of Reed College in Portland, Ore., and Steve Wozniak, a dropout of the University of California, Berkeley, joined forces and founded Apple Computer in 1976. The two became friends when Jobs worked for a summer at HP, where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer.

Thirty-seven years later, the company they built is valued at a whopping $600 billion.

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Paul Allen, a Washington State University dropout, linked up with childhood friend and fellow college dropout Bill Gates in 1975 and founded Microsoft (Gates dropped out of Harvard University). Their first project: marketing a programming language interpreter.

Today, the duo has a combined estimated wealth in excess of $70 billion.

Jack Dorsey transferred to New York University from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, but later dropped out and moved to California. There, Dorsey bounced between jobs before founding Twitter in 2008 alongside Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

Today, Dorsey is chairman of Twitter and CEO of mobile payments company Square. His estimated worth is $650 million, according to Forbes.

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