They told me MBAs weren’t useful but nobody knows I’m ~50% done with an MBA and every class I took this semester ended up being directly relevant to work I did this week

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Decided to go for the cheap, in-state online program with a solid reputation rather than pouring out cash for the brand name. I’d say it’s paying off.

I think you *can* learn it all as a founder, but you’re probably going to take an inefficient path to most knowledge. 

1. I didn’t feel like I had a solid business education nor did I have strong mentorship early in my career.  I didn’t know what “great” looked like.

2. Marketing classes mostly — stuff directly relevant to work I’m doing that I can implement immediately. 

3. Not at all, but I don’t really make an effort to. Not enough time in the day 😅

the big reason why people in tech are anti-MBA is because they believe you can learn more by doing things on the job or as a founder

since you’re already blazing your own trail, i’m curious:

1. why did you decide to do an MBA?

2. what classes have you enjoyed most?

3. do you feel connected to your MBA peers?

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This semester:

Accounting (never had to take it in college)

Marketing analytics (learned a bunch of R and SQL, how to clean data, etc. — that base knowledge + Claude feels like a superpower rn)

Marketing strategy (there are playbooks and frameworks out there that feel obvious in hindsight but… almost nobody in crypto is using)

say more, which classes would you say were most impactful?

Curious to hear about a practical example

I don’t doubt this, I think the main critiques I’ve heard are cost vs benefit (eg paying 200k for a salary change of 25k per year that can be achieved through craft mastery instead of credentials) and misinterpreting the role of top school MBAs primarily as skill instead of network development