Education has everything to do with it,sure many of todays most successful millionaires and billionaires may not have an higher education from universities and colleges, HOWEVER they are indeed Self-Educated in their passions!Most even say they never stop learning,they are actually learning everyday with their experience in their business/failures/new ventures/pass ventures This is why they prevail because they are the masters of their passions(all the people you mentioned taught themselves how to code to a higher degree than the norm because it was their passions, with the ability to not only dream it but actually do it. There is a huge difference between a dreamer and someone who will actually go and do it, The OP is just bragging about something I feel like he has absolutely no idea what he is trying to take on,why? because the OP has failed to mention any concrete steps he has taken to make himself different from the majority who always just come to bhw and claim this and that and all NEVER come back to bhw as the next Facebook/amazon/google big thing creator you get my point.
I recommend you read The Education of Millionaires
http://www.amazon.com/The-Education-Millionaires-Everything-Successful/dp/1591845610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355603265&sr=8-1&keywords=education+of+millionaires
btw Ive been making a living online for 6 years,banked over 100,000k so far this year so I know a little bit about what Im talking about. One more thing,Im a high school drop out.