For every Gates dropout lore, there's Demis Hassabis refusing $1M to finish his PhD
krishnan · x · 2026-10-23
krishnan notes that for every Bill Gates college dropout lore in tech, there's a counter-story: Demis Hassabis turned down $1 million to drop out and completed his PhD instead — a rebuttal to the worship of dropout founders.
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