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Before the McLaren CEO got a $50 million payday from his team’s F1 championship, he was a high-school dropout who got his start on Wheel of Fortune

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McLaren Racing Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri crossed the finish line at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday in third and fourth place respectively, cementing the team’s second consecutive Constructors’ Championship in the sport. One of the oldest teams in F1’s 76-year history, McLaren has reportedly reached an estimated worth of a … Read more

Billionaire college dropout recommends one year in higher education

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Lucy Guo attends as Passes presents Lucypalooza 2024 during LA Tech Week on October 16, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. Gonzalo Marroquin | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Several billionaires and successful entrepreneurs never went to college, from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg — and 30-year-old Lucy Guo recently joined their ranks. The California-based … Read more

Charlie Kirk went from a college dropout to building a $92 million-a-year political movement with a direct line to President Trump by 31

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Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The conservative activist was speaking into a microphone at Utah Valley University, sitting beneath a white tent emblazoned with the slogans “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong,” when he was fatally shot.  The attack comes … Read more

Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI 

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Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture school. “I got to meet fruit professors who are the best in the world at what they do,” Wu told TechCrunch. “Through talking to them, … Read more

Figma CEO Dylan Field’s path from college dropout to billionaire

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Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, signs the guestbook on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech-billionaire. Dylan Field is the latest, after his design startup Figma soared in its stock … Read more

Stanford dropout Sam Altman says college is ‘not working great’ for most people—and predicts major change in the next 18 years

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is so skeptical of college he doesn’t think his own kid will attend. Having dropped out himself—from Stanford University in 2005—the now-billionaire has often advised young people to look beyond a college education and not automatically follow the traditional path. In previous comments, Altman has downplayed his own decision to drop … Read more

Self-made billionaire college dropout Alexandr Wang signs $14.3 billion deal to bolster Meta’s AI efforts: ‘There’s a huge premium to naivete’

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Alexandr Wang, once the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, has agreed to join Meta to work on AI “superintelligence,” leaving the startup that made him rich after dropping out of MIT. Alexandr Wang’s Scale AI just inked a $14.3 billion investment deal with Meta, which transitions the 28-year-old out of his CEO position at … Read more

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