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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by arethuza on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:35AM (#26464001)
"Getting an MBA does not make you not-an-engineer."

My view having known quite a few engineers who got MBAs (outside of the software world) is that it very much marked a point where people had decided they wanted to stop being a practising engineer and wanted to be someone who managed practising engineers (directly or indirectly).

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by marcus_holmes on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:40AM (#26464352)
My view as a developer with an MBA is that I got it because the hardest problems I was facing were people/political/business problems rather than tech problems.

I was already managing a team before I got it. After I got it I've had a mix of roles as both engineer and manager. I didn't intend to switch track, it's more about being better at both tracks.

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