<p>If you are serious about pursuing one of your business ideas, take a look at this: [Peter</a> Thiel | Thiel Fellowship](<a href=“http://www.thielfellowship.org/category/peter-thiel/]Peter”>http://www.thielfellowship.org/category/peter-thiel/). </p>
<p>Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley investor and was a PayPal founder. He is encouraging people to consider skipping college to launch their ventures, the fellowship link above is for that purpose. Many of his views echo the OP’s comments.</p>
<p>It’s obviously controversial, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s been a thread topic here (I haven’t looked, but given why we are here I expect the reaction would be overwhelmingly negative). </p>
<p>Clearly that path isn’t right for everyone (and may be wrong for almost everyone), but if you might be the next Gates or Zuckerberg…</p>