What I've found out is that it's never really about dropping out and the fascination with college dropouts is nonsensical. I never went to college expecting to drop out; the timing just made it happen.
It seems like the real question isn't dropping out or not; the real question is whether an opportunity arises that makes dropping out and pursuing that opportunity make more sense than continue in school. History clearly shows us that, in some cases, dropping out and pursuing opportunity is the better move (Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. being the famous examples).
If you're dropping out because you think you have vague plans about how you'd like to start a startup, that's probably dumb, but if you're dropping out because you've started startup X, which is going to do Y, and the time is now, then that might be a pretty good idea.
What I've found out is that it's never really about dropping out and the fascination with college dropouts is nonsensical. I never went to college expecting to drop out; the timing just made it happen.
It seems like the real question isn't dropping out or not; the real question is whether an opportunity arises that makes dropping out and pursuing that opportunity make more sense than continue in school. History clearly shows us that, in some cases, dropping out and pursuing opportunity is the better move (Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. being the famous examples).
If you're dropping out because you think you have vague plans about how you'd like to start a startup, that's probably dumb, but if you're dropping out because you've started startup X, which is going to do Y, and the time is now, then that might be a pretty good idea.