I sometimes laugh when people start listing individuals who do not hold university degrees who have succeeded in business. Yeah, sure there have been individuals that have been successful in business such as Richard Branson, whilst Richard has a well documented case of dyslexia, Richard hires top notch people to run his businesses when he is piloting a speedboat across the Atlantic Ocean or taking a balloon trip.

Tech entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerburg and Steve Jobs all dropped out of university and succeeded in business – true. These are guys who attended some pretty major American universities; successfully applying to these institutions indicates high level intelligence and academic application, they were already at the top of their game.

The question is, how many engineers, management majors, marketing majors and accountants do these entrepreneurs employ? Guys like David Karp of Tumblr, who sold the company to Yahoo Inc for $1.1 billion. Bill Gates may not have completed his college degree, he was however admitted to the prestigious Harvard University. So too was Mark Zuckerburg, his company now employs over 7000 people – you can bet he employs suitably qualified people.

So while Mark Zuckerburg may not have completed his studies at Harvard, you know he is employing people from these institutions. Not only that, he has now joined the board of China\’s Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. This could only mean, these guys rate university education highly; after all, they are employing graduates from these very schools they attended themselves.