[DarylZero]

If you're talking about "success" as in getting a job, having a gapless resume, good background check, good credit, fitting the corporate mold, becoming the "organization man," etc., then you need to a college degree.

However, this is not a path to the _kind_ of success Bill Gates had, which has to do with getting in early on some new field's new monopoly.

[hackerfromthefu]

And watching that new field like a hawk, and outcompeting all the other hawks.

[DarylZero]

A lot the "outcompeted" still left with billions.