&quot;It makes me wonder if she had spent at least a couple more years beefing up not just her engineering experience, but life experience, that some of the poor CEO decisions she&#x27;s made would have been mitigated.&quot;<p>I think that is a very astute observation.  When you are in the top 0.01% of CEOs you don&#x27;t have a lot of scrutiny.  Bill Gates says that he got lucky with his success and that graduating is a much more sure path to success (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;bill-gates-college-dropout-dont-be-like-me.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;bill-gates-college-...</a>).  If you do make mistakes or have a failure <i>and</i> you dropped out then that (for better or worse) is a focus and probably makes it more difficult to bounce back.  She hasn&#x27;t failed yet, but the fact that she didn&#x27;t spend the extra year or two finishing her degree will make it more difficult if she does fail.  And lets be honest.  We all fail at least once or twice.