A view from someone who has become successful without a degree, tell that to the thousands of others who follow the same path as him but end up on minimum wage, or at the very best run a struggling business.
I don't think it's any secret that a significant number of the country's most successful business people, and the richest people, didn't go to university, or even do A levels, they all started up a business around the ages of 15-16 and it took off for them. It's easy to see them and say that you want to do that and become successful, but the majority of people who try that will fail, some will end up with a relatively profitable business which gets them enough to live on, and a tiny number of those people will run a multimillion, multinational empire at the end of it.
The article is also a bit twisted in how it's worded, he's not so much saying that degrees are worthless, but that work experience is more valid, and some degrees are stupid because they aren't relevant to anything. He says that young bright people are the more appealing people to employ, but I expect he's referring to those who have work experience, or who have done something themselves. It would be interesting to know whether he'd rather take on a university graduate who will need minimal training or a 'bright' person with no experience and who needs to be fully trained (ie needs considerable amounts of money spent on them before they can do anything).