Bill Gates?
Identity: Microsoft founder?
School: Harvard?
Reason for dropping out: Entrepreneurship?
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"The most successful dropout" Gates entered Harvard in 1973, dropped out two years later, and founded Microsoft with his old friend Paul Allen, who was two grades above him. ?
Gates was born on October 28, 1955, and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, was a Seattle attorney. Gates' late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, a trustee at the University of Washington and president of United Way International. ?
Gates attended public elementary schools in Seattle and private Lakeside High School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began computer programming at the age of 13. In 1973, Gates was admitted to Harvard University. He became a good friend with Steve Ballmer, now the CEO of Microsoft. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer, the MITS Altair. During his junior year of college, Gates left Harvard and devoted all his energy to Microsoft, which he founded in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by the belief that computers would become the most important tool in every home and every office, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' vision and his foresight in the personal computer became key to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft continues to develop and improve software technology to make software easier to use, more cost-effective and more fun. The company is committed to long-term growth, as evidenced by its current annual research and development funding of more than $5 billion. ?
Steve Jobs?
Apple CEO?
School: Reed College?
Reason for dropping out: Poor family environment ?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended Reed College in Oregon after graduating from high school, but dropped out after only half a year because his parents were financially strapped. ?
On February 24, 1955, Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, USA. He was ruthlessly abandoned by his father, a university professor, and his mother, a decadent artist, just after he was born. Fortunately, a kind-hearted couple took in the poor illegitimate child. ?
Although he is an adopted son, his adoptive parents treat him very well, just like their own children. As a student, Jobs was smart, naughty, and unscrupulous, and he often liked to come up with ingenious pranks that made people laugh. However, his academic performance is very outstanding. At that time, Jobs lived near the famous "Silicon Valley", and his neighbors were employees of Hewlett-Packard, the veterans of "Silicon Valley". Under the influence of these people, Jobs was obsessed with electronics since he was a child. An HP engineer saw his obsession and recommended him to join HP's "Discoverers Club." This is a party for young engineers held every Tuesday evening in the company cafeteria. It was at a party that Jobs saw a computer for the first time, and he began to have a vague understanding of computers. When Jobs was in junior high school, he met Woz, who was five years older than him, at a class reunion. Woz is the president of the school's electronics club and is also very interested in electronics. The two hit it off and founded Apple Computer eight years later. ?
Frank Wright?
Identity: The most outstanding architect in American history?
School: University of Wisconsin-Madison?
"Times" commented that he spent far more time building universities than studying in them. He influenced the entire course of American architecture. ?
Wright grew up in the natural environment of the Wisconsin Dells since he was a child. On the farm, Wright lived a life of living at sunrise and resting at sunset. I got to know the land through hard labor, realized the mysterious power and potential life flow contained in the four seasons, and realized the inherent melody and rhythm of nature.
Wright believed that a residence should not only rationally arrange bedrooms, living rooms, cupboards, bathrooms and study rooms to facilitate daily life, but more importantly, enhance the cohesion of the family. This understanding led him to include The stove is placed at the heart of the home, making it an essential yet natural place. Wright's ideas and methods influenced his architecture. Wright's life went through a process of groping to establish the meaning of space and its expression, from entity to space, from static space to fluid and continuous space, to dynamic space that developed into a sequence of four dimensions, and finally to dramatic space. Bruno. Sevey said of Wright's contribution: "The organic architectural space is full of dynamics, orientation induction, perspective and vivid and clear creations. Dynamics are creative because their purpose is not to pursue dazzling visual effects, but to seek to express life in the world. Among them, human activity itself?
Budgeminster Fuller?
Identity: philosopher, architect, inventor?
School: Harvard?
Budgeminster Fuller, architect, philosopher, inventor, and artist, dropped out of Harvard twice, and experienced a series of business failures and the death of his daughter in his post-dropout era. He was so shocked that he even thought about dying. He designed an energy-saving house in 1927 and an energy-saving car in 1933. Many of his inventions are still outdated today. He made the world a better place. ?
James. Cameron?
Identity: Oscar Best Director?
School: University of California, Fulton?
Directors include "Titanic", "Avatar" and other critically acclaimed films that changed the history of movies?
On August 16, 1954, James Cameron was born into a middle-class family in Ontario, Canada. His father was an electrician. An engineer, his mother was an artist, which seemed destined for him to be born with talents in both engineering and art. As a boy, James Cameron had extraordinary engineering talents and organizational skills. He once led his friends to create projects. A trebuchet powerful enough to leave a crater in the ground, and a homemade submarine that sent a rat to the bottom of the Niagara River. In terms of art, he studied painting with his mother for many years and held events in his hometown. Art exhibition, and began to write science fiction novels at a very young age. A science fiction novel he wrote when he was 12 years old was regarded as the prototype of his science fiction film "The Abyss". When he was 14 years old, he saw the master Stanley. James Cameron was stunned by Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and watched it 10 times in a row in the cinema. From then on, the desire to make a movie emerged in his heart. Shooting crude films with an 8mm camera?
After graduating from high school, James Cameron was accepted into the physics department at California State University, but he quickly became disillusioned with the college program. , ran out of school and entered the society. He worked as a mechanical repairman and drove a truck for others. In 1977, James Cameron saw George Lucas's classic science fiction film "Star Wars", and he realized with excitement that this was it. What he wanted to create made James Cameron establish his own direction in life and start to get busy with it. He had never received professional training and began to look for opportunities to become a filmmaker, familiar with everything from lenses to camera guides. All kinds of film production equipment, and I even made my first shooting plan in my life with my friends. I wanted to use the equipment at hand and homemade models to make a 10-minute science fiction film! ?
Mark Zuckerberg?
Identity: Facebook founder?
School: Harvard?
Founded in the dormitory Facebook. In 2010, Forbes named him the world's youngest billionaire, with a net worth of US$4 billion. ?
Zuckerberg was born in 1984 and grew up in New York, USA. As the son of a dentist and a psychiatrist, Zuckerberg received a good education since he was a child and was a computer prodigy since he was a child. When he was 10 years old, he got his first computer and spent a lot of time on it. In high school, he designed an MP3 player for the school. After that, many companies in the industry reached out to him, including Microsoft. But Zuckerberg turned down a job opportunity with an annual salary of $950,000 and chose to go to Harvard University.
At Harvard, where he majored in psychology, he remained obsessed with computers. ?
In his second year at Harvard, he hacked into a school database and used photos of students on a website he designed for classmates to evaluate each other's attractiveness. Shortly after the hacking incident, Zuckerberg and two roommates spent a week writing website programs and established a website that provided a platform for Harvard classmates to communicate with each other, named Facebook. Facebook launched in February 2004 and swept the entire Harvard campus. By the end of 2004, Facebook's number of registered users had exceeded one million, and Zuckerberg simply dropped out of Harvard to run the website full-time. Facebook is the second largest social networking site in the United States. Microsoft won the right to acquire 1.6% of Facebook shares for US$240 million. ?
Tom Hanks?
Identity: Oscar winner?
School: University of California, Sacramento?
The only one in history A two-time Academy Award winner and the most famous dropout from the University of California, Sacramento. ?
Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956 in Oakland, California, USA. His full name is Thomas J. Hanks. Her father, Amos Hanks, is a chef, and her mother, Jenna Turner, works in a hospital. When he was 5 years old, his parents divorced and he was raised by his father, a chef. Later, his father married twice more, and Hanks had two more mothers. Under the age of 10, he often experienced a life of moving and wandering, frequently changing schools and changing addresses. ?
As an adult, Hanks was reluctant to talk about his unhappy childhood. But precisely because of this, life taught him to face life with an optimistic and positive attitude. "My past experiences have cultivated my independent spirit" and enabled him to learn to face life with an optimistic and positive attitude. It wasn't until he was studying at the University of California that he suddenly developed a strong interest in acting. He joined the drama club organized by the school and was exposed to professional knowledge and acting training. After graduation, Hanks came to New York to pursue an acting career.
Harrison Ford?
Identity: Well-known Hollywood movie star?
School: Rip Academy?
With "Star Wars" , "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is famous. He dropped out of school before graduation and starred in Lucas's "Star Wars" in 1977, which became a global hit. ?
On July 13, 1942, Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, USA. His father was an Irish Catholic and his mother was a Russian Jew?
Harrison also has a brother who is three years younger than him. When he was a teenager, Ford had little interest in acting, nor did he like watching movies very much. He often liked to stay alone. After graduating from high school, he left Chicago and went to Ripon University in Wisconsin. He was not aggressive in his studies and his grades were not satisfactory. In his junior year (1963), he married his first wife, Mary Marquardt. Before graduation, I had to drop out because I couldn't hand in my graduation thesis. At this time, he began to have an idea, "Why not try to be an actor?" So in 1964, he brought his wife to Los Angeles and began his dream of becoming a Hollywood star. ?
Lady Gaga?
Identity: Popular American artist?
School: Tisk School of the Arts, New York University?
Lady Gaga is studying He dropped out of school after just one year and worked hard on his singing career. Later, he shocked New York society with his shocking costumes, causing a whirlwind around the world. ?
Lady GaGa was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1986, to Italian parents. When she was a child, she attended the Catholic school called the Sacred Heart. Fashionistas Paris Hilton and Caroline Kennedy were both her alumni. In 2006, Gaga signed with Interscope Records as a songwriter after dropping out of New York University. He has composed songs for well-known singers such as Britney, Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, and Akon. When Akon discovered that Gaga also had the ability to sing in front of the camera, he signed Gaga to his label, and since then she began to prepare for her first solo album.
In 2008, Gaga released her first solo album "The Fame", which she explained as "about making everyone feel famous."?
Tiger Woods?
Identity: The best golfer?
School: Stanford?
Reason for dropping out: Concentrate on playing golf?
Tiger Woods is recognized as one of the greatest golfers in history One of the most successful golfers. At the peak of his career, his annual income reached more than 100 million US dollars. ?
The reason why he is called Tiger is because a man named Tiger once saved his father's life in Vietnam. The father wanted his children to remember this benefactor, so he named him Tiger. WOODS?
Tiger Woods' father is American and his mother is Thai, and he has black skin. After he became famous, people used to call him "Tiger" because "Tiger" means "tiger" in English and "Woods" means "forest". It can be seen that his parents put a lot of thought into naming him. The tiger in the forest is naturally as carefree as a fish in water. Just like our Chinese Liu Xiang, their names seem to imply a certain result from the beginning. Speaking of which, Tiger Woods' childhood was not that easy. His family's financial capabilities were relatively poor, and he would have laughed when he had enough to eat. So don’t think that playing golf is just for rich people’s entertainment. Poor children are often more knowledgeable about the world. In order to reduce the financial burden on his parents, the sensible little Tiger quietly went to the golf course to work as a caddy after school. The so-called caddy was to help the wealthy people who played golf pick up balls and carry bags. Little things like that, earning some tips to cover school fees or living expenses. Tiger Woods showed extraordinary golf talent as a child. He shot a 9-hole score of 48 when he was 3 years old, and then appeared in Golf Digest magazine when he was 5 years old. He became the youngest U.S. Amateur champion at age 18, then completed an unprecedented hat trick of U.S. Amateur titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996.