The Early Careers Paths of Top Entrepreneurs of Our Time
- startups
Steve Jobs
- studied at Reed College and dropped out
- worked at Atari for 2 years
- started Apple
Bill Gates
- + studied CS at Harvard and dropped out
- + started Microsoft
Mark Zuckerberg
- studied CS at Harvard and dropped out
- started Facebook
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
- studied CS at U. Michigan / studied math+CS at U. Maryland
- pursued Ph.D. degrees at Stanford and dropped out
- started Google
Jeff Bezos
- studied EE and CS at Princeton
- worked at Fitel
- worked at Bankers Trust
- worked at D.E. Shaw
- started Amazon
Elon Musk
- studied economics and physics at U. Pennsylvania
- studied physics and mat. sci. at Stanford and dropped out after 2 days
- started Zip2
- started PayPal
Jack Dorsey
- studied at Missouri U. Science and at NYU and dropped out
- started a dispatch software company
- started Twitter
Marc Benioff
- studied business administration at USC
- worked at Oracle for 13 years
- started salesforce
Michael Dell
- studied pre-med at UT Austin
- started Dell