Top 20 Successful People Who Never Graduated College

13. Paul Allen – $17.5 billion

Paul Allen got a 1600 on his SAT and went to Washington State University. He dropped out after two years in order to work as a programmer for Honeywell. He would later talk his old friend Bill Gates into dropping out of Harvard in order to form Microsoft in 1975. In 1980, they promised to provide IBM with a DOS for the IBM-PC. This contract spearheaded the company to dominate the PC market.