Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by JamesAdir on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:59PM
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Interesting that Ryan has an MBA from Columbia business school, contrary to the typical founder in the valley.
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Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by throwayit on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:08PM
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I guess it depends on how you define typical.
30% of unicorns are founded by an MBA and 80% of unicorns have an mba on their exec team: https://qz.com/176063/most-mbas-dont-found-billion-dollar-st...
Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by petra on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:55PM
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Is there any data about the success rate of mba founders vs founders from other professions ?
Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by rokob on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:32PM
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Ryan is not the typical MBA in the ways that MBAs are usually denigrated in the valley.
Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by volkk on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:59PM
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Can you expand on what you mean? What does the typical founder have? Is this better? Worse?
Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by pbreit on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:07PM
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Much of SV is wary of MBAs. But I don't think that view extrapolates to founders since they are a different breed than employees.
Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by staticautomatic on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:35PM
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I see people say this online a lot, but everywhere I look there are startups full of MBA's in SF and SV.
Re:Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M val...
by tryingagainbro on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:03PM
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Eventually you will need the MBAs to "straighten you out." I'm sure Harvard, Stanford, Columbia etc would be forced to close their schools if they provided no value to their students, as no one would hire them.
In SV they are derided and part of it, IMO, it's because all the investors want a brilliant guy with no sense of organizing. Investors will provide that, for an extra xx% :)