Top 20 Successful People Who Never Graduated College

3. Larry Ellison – $49.3 billion

Larry Ellison studied at the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago, but he did not graduate from either one. He was influenced by Edgar F. Codd’s work on relational database design. In 1977, this interest led to the creation of Oracle. Oracle quickly became a successful database vendor competing with both Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. In 2010, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. Oracle continues to grow and be a massive success.