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As a co-founder, Mike Grimshaw has been with the SBEC since the beginning. He has a huge supporter of entrepreneurship and carries that vision over to the college that he teaches also. Continue to find out about Mike’s thoughts on formal education and entrepreneurship!
“Most of what you hear about entrepreneurship is all wrong. It’s not magic; it’s not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It’s a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.” Peter F. Drucker
As a college teacher I am constantly challenged by my students about the value of a college education versus the opportunity to pursue entrepreneurial dreams. They cite examples like famous billionaire entrepreneurs; Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Page (Google), Michael Dell (Dell), David Geffen (Geffen Records), Steve Jobs (Apple), Richard Branson (Virgin), Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren), Jerry Yang (Yahoo) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Most on this list received a modicum of post-secondary education, before bailing and pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams.
Like Zuckerberg, Gates also went to Harvard. Page and Yang both attended Stanford. Jobs only completed one semester at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Dell left the University of Texas at 19. Geffen dropped out of three universities before launching his record label. Lauren went to little-known Baruch College in New York State, but left after two years. Branson, a mild dyslexic, never made it out of high school.
They have been successful mainly because they have ample talents combined with both the luck and skill of exceptional timing.
