Overblown much? Tesla and IBM were internships and while it was legit interns were still limited in what they do in comparison. Then there’s this: While Altucher himself went to a Ivy League school, Cornell University, he says his computer science degree “was a waste. … I put in my 10,000 hours of programming, went to graduate school [at Carnegie Mellon] for computer science and put in probably another 10,000 hours.
“Then I actually got a real job in the real world. … My programming skills were so bad — and this is after graduate school and undergrad at the two best computer science schools in the country, or in the top 10 — they had to send me to remedial classes.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/11/self-made-millionaires-dont-go-to-college.html
