21 successful tech moguls who never graduated college

The debate around whether college is worth the time and money has been heating up.

As AI reshapes what it means to be a white-collar worker, and amid high tuition fees, some young people are rethinking the traditional path of graduating from college before entering the workforce.

By now, stories of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropping out of college before earning their degrees have become tech-industry folklore.

However, the Meta and Microsoft founders aren’t the only influential executives who have risen to the top without finishing college.

The founders and CEOs of other tech companies — including a new generation of Gen Z AI talent — also left higher education to bet on the tech world.

Here are 21 tech executives who never got their college degrees.