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College Dropouts

Are More Successful

AJIT SINGH

ENGLISH TRAINER


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ENGLISH TRAINER

BILL GATESWilliam Henry Gates III (1955-), alongwith Paul Allen, co-founded Microsoft

Corporation, the worlds largest softwaremaker. Bill Gates, the wealthiest person in

the world with an estimated net worth of$480 crores (Rs 211,200 crore!), isprobably the best-known college dropout.


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BILL GATESGates attended an exclusive prep schoolin Seattle, went on to study at Harvard

University, then dropped out to pursuesoftware development. As students in the

mid-70s, he and Paul Allen wrote theoriginal Altair BASIC interpreter for theAltair 8800, the first commercially

successful PC.


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BILL GATESIn 1975, Micro-Soft - later MicrosoftCorporation - was born. Three decades on,

Gates has been Number One on the Forbes400 for over a dozen years. And heres

something you probably didnt know: TheBill & Melinda Gates Foundation currentlyprovides 90 percent of the world budget for

the attempted eradication of polio.


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LARRY

ELLISON

Lawrence Joseph Ellison (1944-), co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation,founded his company in 1977 with a sum of$2,000. Once a school dropout, he is now,

according to Forbes , one of the richestpeople in America with a net worth ofaround $184 crores.


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LARRY

ELLISON

The figure also makes him the ninthrichest in the world.As a young man, Ellison worked for theAmpex Corporation, where one of his

projects was a database for the CIA. Hecalled it Oracle, a name he was to reuseyears later for the company that made him

famous.


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LARRY

ELLISONInterestingly, the organisation s initialrelease was Oracle 2. The numbersupposedly implied that all bugs had beeneliminated from an earlier version.

Ellison is quite a colourful man, and haslong dabbled in all kinds of things. Want tolearn more? Try his biography, The

Difference Between God and Larry Ellison.


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DHIRUBHAI

AMBANIDhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (1932-2002)was born into the family of a schoolteacher.It was a family of modest means. When heturned 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden,

working first as a gas-station attendant,then as a clerk in an oil company.


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DHIRUBHAI

AMBANIHe returned to India at 26, starting abusiness with a meager capital of $375. Bythe time of his demise, his company -Reliance Industries Ltd - had grown to

become an empire, with an estimatedannual turnover of $120 crores!


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DHIRUBHAI

AMBANIDhirubhai was, in his lifetime, conferredthe Indian Entrepreneur of the 20thCentury Award by the Federation of IndianChambers of Commerce and Industry. A

Times of India poll in the year 2000 alsovoted him one of the biggest creators ofwealth in this century.


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DHIRUBHAI

AMBANIDhirubhais is not just the usual rags-to-riches story. He will be remembered as theone who rewrote Indian corporate historyand built a truly global corporate group. He

is also credited with having single-handedlybreathed life into the Indian stock marketsand bringing in thousands of investors to

the bourses.


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STEVE JOBSSteven Paul Jobs (1955-) and AppleComputer are names that have long gone

together.Born in the United States to an unknown

Egyptian-Arab father, Jobs was adoptedsoon after birth. After graduating highschool, he enrolled in Reed College,

dropping out after one semester.


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STEVE JOBSIn 1976, 21-year-old Jobs and 26-year oldSteve Wozniak founded Apple Computer

Co. in the family garage. Jobsrevolutionised the industry by popularising

the concept of home computers.By 1984, the Macintosh was introduced. Hehad an influential role in the building of the

World-Wide Web, and also happens to beChairman and CEO of Pixar AnimationStudios.


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STEVE JOBSToday, with the iPod, Apple is bigger thanever. Incidentally, Jobs worked for several

years at an annual salary of $1. It got him alisting in the Guinness Book as `Lowest

Paid Chief Executive Officer. He was oncegifted a $9 crores jet by the companythough. And his net worth? More than $3

billion.


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MICHAEL DELLMichael Saul Dell (1965- ) joined theUniversity of Texas at Austin with the

intention of becoming a physician. Whilestudying there, he started a computer

company in his dormitory, calling it PCsLimited. By the time he turned 19, it hadnotched up enough success to prompt Dell

to dropout.


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MICHAEL DELLIn 1987, PCs Limited changed its nameto Dell Computer Corporation. By 2003,

Dell, Inc. was the worlds most profitablePC manufacturer.

Dell has won more than his fair share ofaccolades, including Man of the Year fromPC Magazine and EM>CEO of the Year from

Financial World . Forbes , in 2005, lists himas the 18th richest in the world with a networth of around $1600 Crores. Not bad forjust another dropout.


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SUBHASH CHANDRA

GOELHeres something not many people know about

Subhash Chandra Goel : The Zee chairmandropped out after standard 12.Subhash Chandra started his own vegetable oils

unit at 19. It was, in a manner of speaking, hisfirst job. Years later, a casual visit to a friend atDoordarshan gave him the idea of starting hisown broadcasting company. We all know how that

story ran.


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SUBHASH CHANDRA

GOELChandra knew nothing aboutprogramming, distribution or film rights.What he did understand quite well was theIndian sensibility though. Funded by UK

businessmen, Zee came into being asIndias first satellite TV network.Today, it reaches 320 lakhs homes,

connecting with 20 crores people in SouthAsia alone.


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