It should be no longer a surprise to hear of a successful businessperson who did not do well in school, but Steve Jobs high school GPA was 2.65! As if you needed another reminder that academic record means very little. Just think of the teachers who thought he would amount to nothing.
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Great find man, I like stuff like that.
Probably because he didn't give a damn.
hahah he was working at hewlett packard while in high school....can you say outlier? skews the gpa a little bit kiddos, read between the lines.
As fun as things like this might be, just remember: Given a 2.65 GPA, you're far more likely to work at a gas station than to end up a billionaire beloved by hipsters.
He's dyslexic you retards. Getting a good GPA in high school is not intelligence, it's all rote. Dyslexics suck at routine bullshit which bankers fucking love.
[quote=cbcbcb]It should be no longer a surprise to hear of a successful businessperson who did not do well in school, but Steve Jobs high school GPA was 2.65! As if you needed another reminder that academic record means very little. Just think of the teachers who thought he would amount to nothing.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/what-was-steve-jo…]
Academic record doesn't matter unless you're not Steve Jobs.
Did he slack off or was he too cool for school? Btw GPA back then has little affect on getting into a good school, but know it is all about GPAs. A 2.65 student would most likely fail in modern day.
Very interesting. The two wealthiest people I've encountered in life never went to college and one of them didn't even finish the 9th grade, albeit neither of them work in finance. One of them kind of scares me with the whole importing/exporting thing with the Czech Republic.
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