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The article opens by calling him a drop-out, which has very negative connotations in English. I note that the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs articles do not open this way despite both of them being drop-outs too. I expect I could find a large number of articles on entrepreneurs and inventors who left formal education but are not called drop-outs in the introduction to their articles. Robert Brockway (talk) 15:07, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]