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09/10/2024

Are tech founders and entrepreneurs who drop out of college more likely to become billionaires? 🤔 Here are their college majors before starting their companies 👇

🚀 Bill Gates | Co-founder of Microsoft, dropped out of Harvard. Left to start Microsoft, driven by a vision of putting a computer on every desk.

💡 Mark Zuckerberg | Co-founder of Facebook, dropped out of Harvard. Focused on expanding his dorm-room project into a social media empire.

🍏 Steve Jobs | Co-founder of Apple, dropped out of Reed College. Dropped out to explore calligraphy and creativity, which later inspired Apple's design philosophy.

🖥️ Larry Ellison | Co-founder of Oracle, dropped out of the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago. Left academia to dive into tech, eventually creating a database giant.

💻 Michael Dell | Founder of Dell Technologies, dropped out of UT Austin. Left to build custom PCs from his dorm room, aiming to revolutionize the computer industry.

🐦 Jack Dorsey | Co-founder of Twitter and Square, dropped out of NYU. Left to pursue his passion for dispatch software, which later led to creating Twitter.

🚖 Travis Kalanick | Co-founder of Uber, dropped out of UCLA. Abandoned his degree to focus on his first startup, setting the stage for Uber's ride-sharing revolution.

📝 Evan Williams | Co-founder of Twitter, dropped out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Pursued the internet boom, eventually shaping the way we communicate with micro-blogging.

🔧 Paul Allen | Co-founder of Microsoft, dropped out of WSU. Left school after convincing Gates to join him in building software for the emerging PC market.

🎸 Sean Parker | Co-founder of Napster & first president of Facebook, dropped out of George Washington University. Chose the tech world over school, forever changing the music industry.

🤖 Sam Altman | Co-founder of OpenAI and Loopt, dropped out of Stanford. Left to build startups and later, drive AI innovation with a mission to shape the future of intelligence.

🧠 Dustin Moskovitz | Co-founder of Facebook, dropped out of Harvard.

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01/10/2024

Are you familiar with any of these companies?

Last week, LinkedIn released its annual list of the Top 50 U.S. Startups, showcasing 50 of the most promising companies in the U.S.!

This list is based on LinkedIn’s exclusive data across four key pillars:

1️⃣ Employee growth

2️⃣ Jobseeker interest

3️⃣ Internal engagement

4️⃣ Ability to attract talent from top companies.

Remember, Facebook and Amazon were startups once too. If you're looking for positions with high potential upside over stability, you might want to check out opportunities at these companies. We posted the link to access LinkedIn's report on our website + a full description of each company.

Let us know in the comments if you are familiar with any of these companies.

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24/09/2024

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🚀 Elon Musk | Founder of SpaceX, co-founder of Tesla, Neuralink & OpenAI. Known for pulling all-nighters at UPenn, Musk sold computers to pay rent before launching into the tech world.

🎮 Jensen Huang | Founder of NVIDIA. Huang’s passion for gaming started during his early days at OSU, where he blended his love for electronics with the gaming industry’s future.

📦 Jeff Bezos | Founder of Amazon. Bezos was fascinated by space exploration in college and even led Princeton’s chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.

🏡 Brian Chesky | Co-founder of Airbnb. Chesky’s college years were filled with creativity—he even reimagined everyday objects, hinting at his future role in disrupting the hospitality industry.

🌐 Marc Benioff | Founder of Salesforce. Benioff created his first software company at 15 and wrote for the USC school paper, blending his tech skills with communication—a future hallmark of his leadership style.

👻 Evan Spiegel | Co-founder of Snapchat. Spiegel’s idea for Snapchat was born out of his Stanford frat house, where he realized the need for disappearing messages in a fast-paced social world.

🎥 Reed Hastings | Co-founder of Netflix. A Peace Corps volunteer in Africa after college, Hastings gained a global perspective that would later shape Netflix's mission to deliver entertainment worldwide.

🔍 Larry Page | Co-founder of Google. Page spent his undergrad years studying search algorithms, fascinated by how data could be sorted—an idea that led to the creation of Google.

🔎 Sergey Brin | Co-founder of Google. Born in Moscow, Brin’s family fled Soviet-era oppression, and at Maryland, he embraced computer science as a tool for freedom and access to information.

What's the best major to choose in 2024?

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11/05/2024

{Read Caption} Adam Neumann, the founder of WeWork, was interviewed at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco. The interview focused on two things: his new residential real estate company called Flow, and his attempt to buy back WeWork.

Neumann sees co-working spaces as complementary to Flow's residential mission in a post-pandemic world. He acknowledges the shift to remote work but argues that homes remain central to our lives. Adam believes the future revolves around intertwined living and working spaces.

He sees WeWork's potential revival as part of Flow, utilizing Flow's technological architecture for offices and leveraging external investment to create a sustainable future for WeWork.

The billionaire founder isn't giving up on WeWork. Despite the company's current bankruptcy proceedings, he argued for his $650 million reacquisition bid as a more sustainable path forward, compared to the proposed restructuring plan.

What are your thoughts on Adam as a leader? Have you been watching WeCrashed on AppleTV?

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Credits: Bloomberg

07/05/2024

{Read Caption} During Berkshire Hathaway's first annual meeting without Charlie Munger, held last Saturday, Warren Buffett took several moments to honor his friend and lifelong business partner.

When asked about what he would do if he had one more day with Charlie, the Oracle of Omaha didn't have a straight answer. He made it quite obvious that his friendship with Charlie wasn't taken for granted.

How many people can say the same about their friends?

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06/09/2023

Steve Jobs has inspired many leaders in the tech landscape throughout the years. Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff was one of many. Jobs gave Benioff his first job after college as an assembly programmer at Apple.

During an interview with Poppy Harlow from CNN, Marc shared a few insights of their relationship. When Marc was struggling to make advancements with Salesforce, here’s what Steve Jobs told him:

1. “Salesforce better be 10 times larger in 24 months or else it’s over”
2. “You have to close a huge massive customer like Avon”
3. “You have to build an application economy”

A couple of years later, Marc was able to return the favor in an incredible way. Click the link in bio to watch the full video and learn about this amazing story.

17/04/2023

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17/04/2023

Click the link in bio to learn more about Ray Dalio. Billionaire investor, Bridgewater Associates founder, author, known for principles-based decision-making recent comments on the stage of the economy. Disclosure: this is not a financial advice.

13/04/2023

When speaking at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in London back in September of 2022, this is what Poppy Gustaffson had to say about accountability regarding Artificial Intelligence. Poppy Gutaffson is the CEO of Darktrace, a Global leader Cybersecurity. Do you agree with her? Share your thoughts!

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13/04/2023

Have you ever wondered which business ventures made Mark Cuban a billionaire and what were his most profitable Shark Tank deals? Check our recent post!

Mark Cuban, a well-known American billionaire entrepreneur and investor, has made a name for himself in the business world with his shrewd investments and entrepreneurial ventures. As the owner of the NBA's Dallas Maveri...

10/04/2023

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