Congratulations on your first successful venture, and best of luck on your new project. At your age, I was busy making just about every questionable choice possible, and while I don't regret anything, I admire your ability to stay focused and determined at that stage in your life, along with the confidence to experience life on your own terms that such an experience must have brought you. You will not have wasted much of your life living out someone else's plan.
Know what I'd do, with hindsight, if I had successfully closed a company sale at that age? Go to a big college in a nice college town, party my ass off, take a bunch of classes in every subject imaginable, and see what interests me. Then, do something in that area, diploma or no. Not too different from what I ended up doing, but I may have been presented opportunities you may not have, and my goal was an eventual (probably mistaken) career at the time.
Know what I'd do, with hindsight, if I had successfully closed a company sale at that age? Go to a big college in a nice college town, party my ass off, take a bunch of classes in every subject imaginable, and see what interests me. Then, do something in that area, diploma or no. Not too different from what I ended up doing, but I may have been presented opportunities you may not have, and my goal was an eventual (probably mistaken) career at the time.