Most tech "dropouts" are elite-university leavers, not uneducated people. The accurate framing is "elite non-completers," a distinction the popular narrative erases. Textbook survivorship bias.

Gates left Harvard in 1975; Zuckerberg left Harvard in 2004; Jobs left Reed after roughly one semester in 1972; the Collison brothers left MIT and Harvard; Vitalik Buterin left Waterloo.