Dropout

Ahead of World Population Day, marked annually on 11 July, Chompunuch Maneechat, known as Baitoey, spoke with UN News about the importance of young people seizing every opportunity to improve themselves and contribute to society with…

Alexandr Wang (Image Source: LinkedIn)Alexandr Wang was a maths whiz as a kid, who was fond of participating in national maths and coding competitions. At the tender age of 25, armed with an unyielding determination and a visionary mind, he…

It can be tough to break into the hospitality business without any training in restaurant management. But Priyank Sukhija never let his lack of formal training in managing restaurants be a barrier to his success. From a dyslexic teenager…

When Kevin Kim dropped out of college at 21 to become an entrepreneur, it seemed like a huge gamble. "My mum cried a little," Kim, now 33, said with a laugh. But his confidence was not unfounded. Kim had just sold his first company — which…

New Delhi CNN Business  —  On a late August evening in New Delhi, journalists’ phones started buzzing with messages. Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate had just…

Stanford University was subpoenaed by famous dropout Elon Musk as part of his legal fight with Twitter Inc. over his plan to walk away from a $44 billion takeover offer.Lawyers for Musk want all records of all “conversations, conferences,…

I’ll admit I’ve grown somewhat weary of the Season of the Scammer—or, at least, the way it’s depicted onscreen. Sure, I loved Hustlers to a deranged degree, but I wasn’t much of an Inventing Anna fan (sorry, Julia Garner, ILY), and I didn’t…

Boasting an inordinately good cast in even relatively minor roles, the series adopts an unexpectedly sympathetic posture toward Holmes, at least in the early going, as she seized on the idea of improving the blood-testing process before…

In Hulu's The Dropout, Amanda Seyfried deftly channels disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her specific brand of beauty (hastily finger-raked updos, blowouts, red lips). But for last night's Los Angeles premiere, the actor’s…

Yapp repeatedly tried to convince his mother of his desire to leave school permanently. “She said no. It took some time for her to really, fully trust me. We sat down one day and we talked about it ... I said I really wanted to do it. I…