He later attended Harvard Business School but dropped out after only six months. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard after two years to start Microsoft - the business that would make him a millionaire at 26, and then the world's richest person - a title he held for several years.

Why did Bill Gates drop out of Microsoft?

This article is in your queue. Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire's prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, people familiar with the matter said.

Did Steve Jobs drop out?

The Apple co-founder "may ... be one of the most famous dropouts in history," per Reed College, the liberal arts school in Oregon which Steve Jobs left after just one semester. ("I ran out of money," Jobs explained in a 1991 commencement speech at the school.)