A college dropout, he had worked for Fairchild and National Semiconductor before starting his own PR and advertising firm.
He was an engineering school dropout, a participant in the Free Speech Movement, and an antiwar activist.
"In retrospect, it was weird to hire a dropout from Reed, " Alcorn recalled.
" Many of Reed's students took all three of those injunctions seriously; the dropout rate during the 1970s was more than one-third.
Paul Jobs was a high school dropout who, when fixing up cars, knew how to turn a tidy profit by striking the right deal on parts.
Thus it was that the boy became the son not of a lawyer but of a high school dropout with a passion for mechanics and his salt-of-the-earth wife who was working as a bookkeeper.
Jobs was a dropout at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, around the time of this application, auditing courses to save money.
His main rival Gao Chilin was a school dropout from the central city of Wuhan, who lost 61kg.
He had a series of terrible blue collar jobs as a high school dropout, army vet, but this particular job he had in 1960 was probably the worst.
At 17, Sohmers is unconcerned that being a high-school dropout will affect his career in any way.
" Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and iconic dropout of the storied university, is returning to offer words of wisdom to this year's graduating class.
: In the late 19th century, Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat and dropout from the priesthood, found his life's goal: to create a sporting culture that existed separate from political concerns.
It shows dropout billionaires are more prevalent than just household names such as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates or Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — something legions of MBA students may ponder as they rack up large debts in pursuit of a ticket to future riches.
In an effort to combat Romania's poor school dropout rate and boost children's interest in math, the country's football federation has kickstarted a novel initiative - having players swap their standard kit numbers for mathematical equations.
"Everyone in the world knew about our infamous encounter at the VMAs, but something you may not know is Kanye West's album 'College Dropout' is the very first album I bought on iTunes," Swift said.
I was a high school dropout with learning disabilities and was set on surfing the biggest waves in the world, first in California and then in Hawaii, where I would later live.
And while many more Americans attend college than in the past, most of the growth has occurred at colleges with relatively few resources and high dropout rates, which bear little resemblance to the elites.
Today, I'm a grad school dropout, living with my boyfriend in a slightly larger apartment, and on my second job.
