[hatmatrix]

"One of the most surprising discoveries for me in researching my book Richistan was that many of today’s rich didn’t do that well in school. In fact, many of them didn’t go to college — or if they did, they quickly dropped out."

Does he go beyond Bill Gates, Mike Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs et al.? I think it's widely known that a lot of tech founders left college or grad school so I suspect it wouldn't have come as a surprise to most people.

[weisser]

What does doing well in school have to do with intelligence?

[yen223]

You need a certain measure of intelligence to be able to pass the tests, or to game the system so as to appear to pass the tests.