6.Paul Allen – $16.2 billion
On number 6 wealthiest billionaires who dropped out of college we have Paul Allen.
Net worth: $16.2 billion
Profession: Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation & founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. & owner of the Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Sounders FC franchise
Fact: Convinced Bill Gates to drop out of college.
After getting the perfect SAT scores, computer programmer and investor Paul Allen enrolled at the Washington State University, but dropped out after 2 years. He moved in Boston and started working as a programmer for Honeywell.
Allen met Bill Gates, whom he became friends with, and managed to convince him to drop out of college as well, them starting the Microsoft Company. They both created the Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter.
He has been involved with computers since the age of 7!
