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Great Students Are Great Employees Not Founders (chriskopec.com)
10 points by ckopec on April 8, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> More than 20% of the 292 of the self-made American billionaires on the most recent list of the World's Billionaires have either never started or never completed college.

Only ~25% of Americans over 25 hold a bachelor's degree. If 80% of self-made American billionaires completed college, then assuming it was the only factor, your chances of becoming a billionaire are dramatically better if you have a degree.


Cool, more "founder worship." Let's see if this passed the "one word test:" Google. Nope. Nevermind.




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