Quiz: Which university did these start-up founders attend?

An entrepreneurial mindset in this day and age is incredibly valuable. Universities are increasingly offering more opportunities for students to develop entrepreneurial and innovative thinking, and some even have incubators supporting and funding students’ start-up ideas.

With technology paving the way for niche products and new markets every day, many university graduates go on to become founders of their own successful businesses and start-ups, armed with the skills and tools they have developed at university.

Interested to know where the founders of some of the world’s top start-ups graduated from? Their educational backgrounds may have played a huge role in the success of their companies, as well as the networking and connections they developed in college.

Take this quiz and see if you can guess which university these founders attended. You may just become more inspired to launch your own successful venture!

Where did Nathan Blecharczyk, one of the founders of Airbnb, pursue his undergraduate education?

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Yale University

Harvard University

Columbia University

New York University

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Which university did Andrew Mason, founder and former CEO of Groupon, graduate from?

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University of Chicago

University of Pennsylvania

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Northwestern University

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Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree. Where did he get them from?

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Stanford University (Bachelor of Science) and Oxford University (Master of Science)

Oxford University (Bachelor of Science) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master of Science)

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Where did Arum Kang, CEO & co-founder of the Coffee Meets Bagel dating app, receive her MBA?

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Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

Columbia Business School at Columbia University

Harvard Business School at Harvard University

Haas School of Business at University of California-Berkeley

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Which university did Mikael Cho, one of the founders of Unsplash, graduate from?

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Iowa State University

California State University

University of Houston

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What about Emily Weiss, founder of make-up and skincare brand Glossier?

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Oxford University

Harvard University

University of Michigan

New York University

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Where did Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, founders of FlipKart (a successful e-commerce website in India), receive their undergraduate education?

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Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

University of Hyderabad

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Indian Institute of Science

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Where did Gareth Williams, co-founder of Skyscanner, the online travel company, graduate from?

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University of Bristol

University of Manchester

Durham University

University of Cambridge

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Quiz: Do you know where these successful start-up founders graduated from?

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