Gen Zers in their droves are ditching college to become their own boss. Some are even already becoming millionaires in the process. But don’t be fooled into thinking that’s the norm. That’s, at least, according to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has just warned Gen Z that college dropout success stories are too good to be true for most people.
“It is possible to be 18, 19, 20 years old, drop out of college and be a great entrepreneur,” Bezos recently said on stage at Italian Tech Week 2025. “We have famous examples of that working, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. But these people are the exception.”
