Gary Kildall had a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Gary Arlen Kildall had a PhD and an operating system that only needed to be converted to run on the IBM PC. But Kildall had a PhD and therefor was no match for a pennyless college drop out named Bill Gates
Kildall was defeated and his company distroyed by a guy who dropped out of college and who bought the rights to DOS 1.10 with 50 grand of borrowed money.
You make my point. A man with a PhD and a successful operating system company, could not beat a college drop out who had some creativity left undamaged and a tiny (at the time) start up called Microsoft.