I think it's important to take stories like this with a pinch of salt. People hear about famous people who drop out of University and get mega-rich from it, or even a very good wage like the OP. But it builds people's hopes up to unrealistic levels and they think that opportunities will just fall at their feet.
Stories like this happen in exceptionally rare cases. And even where they do, the person who achieves it will have had to work their arse off to achieve it. I do agree that experience counts far more than education, but you can't achieve anything or get to the top without hard work. I mean, putting in a half arsed effort into a degree, missing exams and writing 320 our of 10,000 words on a dissertation will rarely get you anywhere. If you're going to do that, then 95% of the time, you might as well not bother going to University, get a job at least three years earlier and start building your experience from there.
Congratulations to the OP for his success, but this story is a one-off, and is not how the world works.