Is a university education crucial for founders?
Is a university education crucial for founders? Dr Vikas Nand Kumar Batheja, co-founder and director of Capital College in Dubai Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg stand out as remarkably successful entrepreneurs who all dropped out of university. To them, their higher education was an unnecessary distraction. But several studies show that the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs follow a more traditional path - university, corporate experience and then entrepreneurship. In this oped, Dr Vikas Nand Kumar Batheja, the co-founder and director of Capital College in Dubai explains wh...