Will successful Self-Taught Programmers please stand up?

I'm sure John Carmack and a few other famous programmers are not the only cases of self-taught programmers that have been successful (whatever the degree). Please tell us how it is being a self-taught programmer. Do you have a startup? Do you work for Google / Facebook / Apple / ...? Do you work on your own, or in someone else's company, and are as successful and acknowledgeable than your CS colleagues?

Please tell us your story.