Your credentials matter a lot less when you are the founder.
I always got the impression that, at least in Jobs' case, he was the founder _because_ he didn't have a degree - i.e. he had nowhere else to go.
Jobs had a steady job at Atari before he left to start Apple. I seem to remember he offered the first version of the Apple I (or maybe II?) to HP while he was there, but they turned him down.
I thought Jobs was gone and it was Woz who did
Worth noting that in those days a far smaller percentage of the population were university educated.
yea but they dropped out of ivy league schools... that's not the average dropout