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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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Does a college degree actually create wealth? Or is there a better path to success? In this video, Tai breaks down why the wealthiest people often drop out of college—and what they do instead to build massive fortunes.
🔹 The REAL reason Harvard grads aren’t the richest alumni
🔹 Why mentorship and hands-on learning beat classroom lectures
🔹 How billionaires like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk built wealth
🔹 What you should focus on instead of a traditional degree
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0:00.0 | Let's have a debate. |
0:01.6 | I just tweeted that there's no bigger lie than the thought that life coaching and make money coaches are a scam. |
0:08.1 | Basically, 100% of people do better when they're guided by a guru. |
0:12.5 | And essentially, 0% of individual wealth has been created by the alternative, a traditional university education. |
0:19.3 | So a guy wrote back, this is where the debate starts. |
0:21.6 | You think I'm right? That basically individual wealth, one person becoming hyper wealthy, |
0:28.6 | is unrelated to university education. Now some people will say, ah, because people suck at statistics. |
0:34.6 | What do you mean? Most of the wealthy people in the world went to university. |
0:38.9 | Causation versus correlation. So, for example, Harvard, the individuals who became the wealthiest |
0:44.8 | from Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Bill Gates, both of them have trillion dollar companies. |
0:50.0 | They dropped out of Harvard. So is it the fact that Harvard takes all the high IQ rich kids who are already likely to become wealthy, |
1:01.2 | puts them in a room, and what they do with them isn't even important? |
1:05.7 | Oh no, but Ty, you know, a good professor is worth their weight in gold. Yes. But in general, the number one thing |
1:14.5 | that creates wealth is your parents being wealthy. Over 75% of self-made billionaires had rich parents. |
1:22.7 | Yeah, they still created their wealth. So Harvard, should they get patted on the back? Wow, you create all these |
1:28.6 | wealthy people? No, a pig farm, a pig farm in the middle of central the United States, in Iowa, |
1:36.0 | could suddenly say, all right, all high IQ rich kids come here and work on the pig farm. And you |
1:42.4 | track 10 years later, that pig farm would have |
1:46.0 | created more wealth than a local university who didn't have the rich high IQ kids. So we're |
1:53.6 | confusing things. You're confusing things. It's predispositions for wealth and Harvard just has to be |
1:59.9 | a place. But if you look at the ones who make the most money, they don't even go to the classes. |
2:04.2 | Paul Allen dropped out, Bill Gates dropped out is up where they even go to the classes. |
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