Before becoming a famous college dropout, Bill Gates applied to 3 Ivy League schools and used a different 'persona' for each one: 'each was a performance'
- Posted on February 7, 2025
- By Fortune
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Before becoming a famous college dropout, Bill Gates applied to 3 Ivy League schools and used a different 'persona' for each one: 'each was a performance'
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Gates later dropped out of Harvard and started tech giant Microsoft with the late Paul Allen.