I agree with your comment (both are needed in a established corp) but I also agree with what the article was trying to say but ultimately doesn't succeed in dri

I agree with your comment (both are needed in a established corp) but I also agree with what the article was trying to say but ultimately doesn't succeed in driving home. If the goal is to create a TECH STARTUP, the non-coding, "fear me. I am Wharton grad" MBA guy is the monkey (monkey == guy with commodity skills). Not the dev. And the whole irony is that a smart MBA would pick up on the fact that the tides have shifted in the current-day startup ecosystem and do something about it. A smart biz guy has 2 choices. One is to adjusting the idea to be more "biz-centric", making their inherit skill more valued to the startup. The other is to expanding one's own job description of the biz dev beyond just coming up with the the idea with the goal of directly making the dev's life much easier (like do some front end coding/QA). This article has valid points but unfortunately reads more like a "haha. Nerds Win!" jab.