These Billionaires Never Finished College

Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani is the ninth richest man in the world. In 1979, Ambani enrolled at Stanford but dropped out to concentrate on his father’s business. The name of his father’s business is Reliance Industries and today it is ranked second as most valuable company in India. Ambani currently holds a 44.7 percent stake in the company.

His net worth is at $23 billion and it just recently went up. He also has served on the board of directors of Bank of America and the advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations. In June of 2016, Ambani launched the third highest selling smartphone in India.

Elizabeth Holmes

It seems like many of these dropouts dropped out of prestigious colleges. Here we have Elizabeth Holmes who attended Stanford. When she was a sophomore in 2003, she decided to drop out after she founded Theranos. Theranos is a healthcare technology company and clearly now a highly successful one.

Holmes net worth is $.46 billion and she is the youngest female billionaire at 32 years old. Theranos is privately-held and is a blood test company in Palo Alto. The sad news is that in 2016, Holmes was banned from directing a diagnostic lab for two years but that is under appeal.