content: Plus, you know, no one writes articles about the thousands of drop-outs who have achieved nothing.  Any article like this makes me crazy. There are only 536 billionaires in America. That's it. That's not just tech start-up billionaires - that's all billionaires. That's only .00000166% of the population. Yes, that is a tiny number. Modeling your decisions after people who got insanely lucky in addition to seeing themselves through some extremely challenging years to make it happen is kind of crazy.