A number of today’s billionaires, such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, have attained success despite never attending or graduating from university, a fact that has gotten a lot of press. In 2011, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Theil started an ongoing program that awards $100,000 (INR 77,67,805) to young entrepreneurs who want to drop out of school (the article featured a cartoon with the lines “College is for suckers”).
