100 Top Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded without a College Degree
Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, U.S. president. Finished one year of formal schooling, self-taught himself trigonometry, and read Blackstone on his own to become a lawyer.
Benjamin Franklin, inventor, scientist, inventor, diplomat, author, printer, publisher, politician, patriot, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Home-schooled with less than two years of formal education.
David Karp, founder of Tumblr. Dropped out of Bronx Science at the age of 15, then homeschooled. Did not attend college.
Walt Disney, founder of the Walt Disney Company. Dropped out of high school at 16.
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I’ll consider lists like this when they exclude anyone born before 1965. You can’t cite them as a reason to not go to school when a college education was a rare opportunity for most people until recently.
