MBA

“It's better to learn from these resources than it is to just go out and pay, you know, a hundred grand for an MBA.”

“I see many times where there were MBAs, junior associated VCs, and coming to try to compete with us, but they always quickly failed after some great original boss.”

“The counter argument that an MBA disqualifies you from participating meaningfully in the startup ecosystem is just not true. And there's actually just in my class in business school, Harvard business school, 2009, you had rent the runway, thread up cloud flare…”

“So I've always joked that an MBA is the anti-entrepreneurship degree. And I say this really tongue in cheek because it equips you with so many, so much ability to say no. If your hunch is this is tough, You'll find many ways of corroborating that this is tough…”

“The timing as to why is it today that we're going to see more masters and PhD engineering degrees at the CEO helm of companies than MBAs is because of those things. And it's taken a while for engineers like myself to build out positions in the venture capital …”

“Listen, outside of the VC community does give you some credibility. Like when you're selling to enterprise customers, for example. Two is that it's specifically the finance and accounting classes you take are incredibly helpful when you're building a business.”

“I think school is often a waste of time, especially if you're in tech. My number one piece of feedback to people is, Get experience. If you want to be in business, start a business. Don't do an MBA.”

“I also don't have an MBA. I don't have an Ivy League education”

“An MBA is, Is a non-risky move. It is seeking security, actually, by definition.”

“If you want to be a badass PM, I don't think you really need it. You can learn the skills that you need to learn through product-focused training, through being in the right situation, through learning from Jedi Masters at your company. If you want to be a CPO…”

“Well, personally, I'm not a big believer in MBAs except from if you have some kind of job and need to change direction, and you feel that, you know, I'm in the wrong place, I just need to completely do something else. Then an MBA is good. It's good as a kind o…”

“I think MBAs make a lot of sense for people who are trying to break into a specific industry. Like if you are trying to break into private equity or you want to be a PM at Amazon or go into McKinsey, then MBAs have like your preset path and you just follow you…”

“MBAs have such an interesting reputation in tech. Most people just absolutely hate them.”