Career Path: From college drop-out to CEO success story Larry Zulch has always been passionate about business. He even dropped out of Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, to run a company left to him by his late uncle. It was there, Zulch says, that he learned most of his lessons. He later returned to college – this time, the University of California at Davis, to study economics – but never dropped his entrepreneurial spirit, founding a couple of different businesses before graduating. (Crain's)