Our
parents encourage us to finish schooling so we could have a better life
in the future. This has been the pattern of heritage being passed on
from generation to generation. There is no doubt that studying would
help everyone to fight illiteracy, and achieve the kind of life that
everyone dreams. However, according to history, there are people who
never finished any degree, and even skipped classes just because they
have other things that they want to pursue in life. Who would have
thought that these people would one day exceed not just comfortable
life, but would even be part of the top 10 school dropout billionaires
in the world? Get to know the path, struggles, and success that they
trudged in order to reach the state of being known, popular, and
enjoying the abundance of life.
10. Puthan Neduvakkatt Chenthamaraksha Menon
He
is commonly known as PNC Menon who founded the Sobha Developers
Limited, where he also serves as Chairman Emeritus. He holds the fifth
position as the richest Indian who is a member of the Gulf Cooperation
Council that has a total asset of $1.25 billion. His mindset is a
natural heritage that he acquired from his father who was also a
businessman. Despite that he lost his father at an early age, and
dropped from his college course at Sree Kerala Varma College, he
sustained himself by putting an interior decoration business. He is one
of the trending topics in the business world now after he expressed his
desire to donate to charity, half of his wealth, but it’s innate to him
to be involved in philanthropic works, and he has been donating to
different charity institutions for years.
9. Subhash Chandra
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This
62-year old media mogul in India has a total net worth of $2.9 billion.
He got that title when he launched the channel Zee TV in 1992 that
became the private news channel later on. He received various award in
the entrepreneurship, and has been consistent in Forbes list of richest
people in the world. He ceased to attend school when he was 12 years
old, but at age 19, he was already in rice trading, and even managed his
own vegetable oils. He experienced all the hardships and toils in life
since he also grew up in a small village in India. In fact, his family
had incurred huge amount of debts that put him to a situation that he
had to drop from his college course and started working. After he moved
to Mumbai, he established a business related to packaging unit making
laminated tubes, which in turn became the world’s largest producer of
tubes, which is popularly known today as Essel Propack.
8. Shahid Balwa
He
is another billionaire from India who is included in the top 10
youngest billionaires in the world today. He dropped out from college
and chose to run the hotel business of his family. His family moved to
Mumbai where they established a restaurant business. This is also where
the hotel business of family begun. Shahid natural passion in business
opened a wonderful partnership with Vinod Goenka from the DB Realty and
DB Etisalat a known telecom outfit. From that time forward, the fortune
of his earnings increased in the field of real estate, which placed him
to one of self-made billionaires in the world.
7. Vinod Goenka
He
is the partner of Shahid Balwa in the DB Realty, who is also included
in this list of dropout billionaires. He became known in the real estate
development, where he gets the abundance of his life, and the luxuries
that he enjoys along with his family and kids. He is from Mumbai, but he
chose to stop attending school and instead help his father in the small
construction company that he owns. Through his efforts, this small
company did expand and it has grown into a Dynamic Group that also
handles dairy business. His partnership with Balwa’s Realty did boost
their family’s business.
6. Gautam Adani
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This
is the 16th richest 50-year old billionaire from India and rank number
437 in Forbes list of Billionaires. He owns the Adani Group that focuses
in coal trading, power generation, coal mining, gas distribution, oil
& gas exploration, and multi-modal logistics. He has seven siblings,
and the turn of events in his life took place when his family moved to
Gujarat in order to find better livelihood. Within the short span of
time, his father’s business has grown, but Gautam Adani moved to Mumbai,
where he played his luck by opening an innings, where he humbly worked
as a diamond sorter, then two years after he founded a diamond brokerage
business with a trading set-up. In just a year, he earned a million,
and this happened during the 80s. His successful path continued where he
had other sorts of opportunities to expand and acquire businesses.
5. Michael Dell
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Known
to be the CEO and the very name behind Dell computers and laptops all
over the world, Michael Dell has been named as the 41st richest
person in the world. He even has a net worth of over $1.9 billion. Even
before the days when the Dell name was famous in the computing world,
he had already been selling upgrade kits being used for computers in his
college days at the University of Texas in Austin, even though he is
taking a pre-medical course. For someone taking up medical courses, he
was even able to bag a deal of being a licensed vendor of computers,
even if he did not have his own computer store. In May 1984, the Dell
Computer Store was well on its way, making hundreds of thousands of
dollars with PC upgrades, components, accessories, and more, with his
schooling ended up hanging due to his business success.
4. Lawrence Ellison
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Larry
Ellison is the co-founder and current CEO of the worldwide enterprise
software producer and networking solutions provider, Oracle Corporation.
To date, he is the third richest man in the world, having a net worth
of over $41 billion, already including his stocks ownership of the
company. He lived a life of sorrow, being given away by his real mother
to his aunt and uncle for adoption, when he was only nine months old,
being sick with pneumonia. When he was in college, he was not able to
finish his second year due to his adoptive mother’s death, not taking up
his final exams during the said school year. During one summer after
that event, he was able to attend the University of Chicago where he
encountered computer design and began from there, focusing on his career
instead of his education.
3. Steve Jobs
A
celebrated innovator and genius, taking the name of Apple Inc to its
prime state, Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs took the computer age in a
revolution that became a benchmark of its many competitors where
technologies like graphical user interfaces, the mouse, and even
smartphones have been a staple in the computer world. He also became the
co-founder of the famous animation studios, Pixar. It was during in his
leadership in Apple that the names iMac, iPod, iPhone, the iPad,
iTunes, The App Store, and even Apple Retail Stores came into light, all
coming from his visionary ideals of pioneering a generation that
changed the face of computing and mobile interaction forever. When he
entered Reed College in Oregon, his parents Paul and Clara could not
afford such expensive education. He decided to drop school due to such
costs and he lived a life that depended on returning coke bottles for
money, and eating free food in a temple. But who could even imagine that
such a brilliant mind took toll of such challenges in life?
2. Mark Zuckerberg
The
name of Mark Zuckerberg is now associated with the world-famous social
networking site, Facebook, although there are five of them that first
discovered the site in Harvard. He is actually the current CEO and
chairman of Facebook Inc, and his personal net worth of over $9.4
billion. Being excited with the results of his programming in creating
the Harvard-exclusive social network called HarvardConnection.com, he
dropped out of class in his quest to perfect the existing codes, and
develop the mainframe of the other program into a system that is
exclusively his, with Facebook.
1. Bill Gates
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Just
like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates is also a student at Harvard
University that decided to drop out of school in his desire to creating a
company of his own, together with Paul Allen, knowing that their
success was on the way with the successful release of the MITS Altair
8800, while working at Honeywell. The implementation of MITS only
indicated that with the partnership in place, they could create their
own systems and face the market with new offerings in mind. This was the
time when Microsoft was created, with the promise of changing the face
of computing for good. Due to his business, he was consistently named as
one of the richest people in the world, even being the wealthiest for
so many years since 1995.
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