I strongly agree with DHH‘s message that MBA is usually not needed to create a successful business. I think people pursue it because of the fallacy of belief in the top-down models too much. There’s this fallacy that science makes the technology go forward, when it’s usually the opposite, the tehnology drives the science. And the technological inventions are usually created by remixing existing inventions, by playing around with different ideas, by experimenting and seeing what sticks. I think that’s the case with MBAs as well. They don’t drive the innovations in business. The best entrepreneurs are usually not created in MBA programs, they are usually people that tinkered around the most, that preservered, that did their 10,000 experiments, or that made crazy stuff like building bombs for fun when they were in high school. This couldn’t be more different than the image of the perfect student getting a fancy MBA degree.
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