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Why a High School Dropout's Staffing Company Is in a Class of Its Own

Taso Du Val's Toptal helps businesses find the software know-how they need.
Taso Du Val

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School isn’t for everyone. Richard Branson dropped out at 16, and he’s doing just fine. David Karp quit school at 15, and 11 years later he sold his blogging platform Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Hell, Benjamin Franklin’s formal education concluded when he was just 10, and he’s enshrined on the $100

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