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May 22, 2013

When is it OK for parents to let a wunderkind drop out of school?

By BETH J. HARPAZ
Associated Press

NEW YORK — It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

But now we've got David Karp, who doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, and sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.


 
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