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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by api on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:50AM (#6224315)
"I think that the people who are best at building things that people want don't want to get an MBA."

I know MBA school will be the first thing I do in hell.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dylangs1030 on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:52PM (#6226009)
GMAFB, you're just showing a personal hatred and stereotypical perspective, stop being so melodramatic. Incredible things have come from MBAs. You're being ignorant.
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by jlgreco on Friday August 16, 2013 @03:54PM (#6226376)
> Incredible things have come from MBAs.

You're all talk and no substance; let's have some examples.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dylangs1030 on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:13PM (#6227031)
The two founders of http://flightcaster.com (tech startup) both have MBAs.

Matt Soldo, a serial entrepreneur who has worked in both technology and management and founded his own startups, has an MBA. He currently works at Heroku.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by jlgreco on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:16PM (#6227042)
Incredible. Truly. I would have never guessed somebody with an MBA might start a company or work in management. Somebody with an MBA who also is capable of technical things? Stunning. You have opened my eyes; clearly getting an MBA allows one to create incredible things. These are incredible.

Which one of us is wearing the SV blinders again? What have MBAs done, in the capacity of MBAs, that is incredible? Founding or working at some tech startup is not incredible.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dylangs1030 on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:35PM (#6227110)
I'm not wearing any blinders. That's the point. I have no loyalties or hatred towards anyone just because they have letters after their names.

My examples are meant to show you that your "Us and Them" mentality with engineers and MBAs is just false and doesn't reflect reality, no matter how many anecdotes people throw around on HN.

You asked for examples. I gave them. Now you're attacking me instead of my point. I've proven you wrong, bottomline. You just can't see past your anti-MBA bias.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by jlgreco on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:37PM (#6227118)
Your best defense of MBAs is that some are capable of doing other things as well. You may as well tell me that dogfood is a perfectly reasonable meal for humans because sometimes you feed your dog your leftovers: "Dogfood makes great people food. See, here is some dogfood that also happens to be people food" "MBAs can create just as well as technical people. See, here are some MBAs who are technical people as well" "Chiropractors aren't all quacks. See, here is a chiropractor who is also a licensed physical therapist."

I can only conclude that it is as I suspected; you are full of hot air.

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