Bill Gates Says He Probably Wouldn't Start Microsoft If He Were to Drop Out of College Today

Bill Gates is often called Harvard's most famous dropout. He notably ditched the top university in 1975 to found Microsoft, and became the world's richest man. Looking back, Gates has said he was lucky that computers were a hobby and an obsession of his at a time when they were just starting to change the world. But speaking on Friday at another Ivy League university, Columbia University, along with fellow billionaire and famous investor Warren Buffett, Gates said that if he were to drop out of college today there's a limited chance he would end up in the computer industry, and likely not in developing operating software for companies. Roughly 1,000 people, mostly students, gathered on the campus to hear the two billionaires speak.