There are many entrepreneur success stories which are
read by many people. In that some of the stories are youngsters who are dropped
out of college. Now a day’s more and more youngsters are dropping out of
college and starting to work.
There was always a major question the reason behind
the drop outs. It can be made into three points.
1. College these days
focus on theoretical education more than practical training which does not help in real life.
2. College dropouts start
early these days who does not wait for the degree. Hence, there will be more time to build their dreams.
3. They don’t have to pay
student loans, so they can put more investments in their dreams.
But whatever it may be we always see college dropouts
as successful in life. Starting from Oprah to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs etc.. there
is a list of famous entrepreneurs who have not collected their college degrees.
In India also entrepreneurs prove that college degree
is not that important to be successful. Here are the few popular names of
successful Indian entrepreneurs.
1. Kailash Katkar
Kailash Katkar founded the company called Quick Heal
Technologies, who never went to college. He grew up in a small town of Maharashtra
and did not have any formal education. In 1993, he founded the company called
CAT Computer Services and renamed to Quick Heal Technologies.
2. Ritesh Agarwal
Ritesh Agarwal is from a small town in Orissa. He
dropped out of college which made him eligible for Peter Thiel Fellowship. Then
at the age of 19, he built the most popular hotel searching and booking website
called OYO Rooms.
3. Varun Shoor
Varun was born in Jalandhar. When he was 13, he taught
himself web programming. At the age of 17 he built his own company called
Kayako which was after dropping out college in the first semester.
4. Azhar Iqubal
News in short a app that gives you headlines of the
day in less than 60 words. He made a revolutionary app which helps people who
doesn’t have time to go through news in detail. It all started as Facebook page
and then was made into an app. He started this startup when he dropped out of
college when he was 4th year.
5. Mahesh Murthy
Mahesh Murthy dropped out of college at the age of 17.
He then sold vacuum cleaners, he founded the company called Pinstorm which is
an advertising firm. He also won many awards as Creative director and also
worked with top brands like Pepsi, MTV, Unilever etc.
6. Kunal Shah
In 2010, Kunal founded FreeCharge which is an online
recharging app. He founded the company, when he dropped out of his MBA degree.
7. Rahul Yadav
Rahul Yadav is founder of Mumbai based real estate
searching website called Housing.com. He earlier started Exambaba.com which
provides a collection of old exam papers, which was closed under the
instruction of IIT Mumbai. He dropped out of his college in his last year.
8. Ankit Oberoi
He is founder of AdPushup, a startup which optimizes
apps for bloggers and publishers. He dropped out of college in his first
semester, declaring it a waste of time.
9. Bhavin Turakhia
Bhavin is the founder of Directi, an internet domain
registrar company. He dropped out of college at the age of 18 and founded this
company with his brother. Directi is now a
global company with millions of users worldwide.
10. Amritanshu Anand
He is the man behind Retention.ai, a domain to allow
app developers to connect with uninstallers and let them study their behavior.
He dropped out of college and built his app in 2013
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