If you have the opportunity in your current job to take on a P&L responsibility that includes being a manager of people (I see you are an EM), you can pick up q

If you have the opportunity in your current job to take on a P&L responsibility that includes being a manager of people (I see you are an EM), you can pick up quite a lot of the day-to-day running of a business. Even a couple of years of experience would make you a well-rounded manager and expose you to different aspects of the business. The "boring" parts of running a business: contracts, legal, hiring, marketing, sales, finance etc., is where you need exposure. PS: I started as a programmer, after 10+ years as an engineer I moved over to business operations, rose to become Chief Operating Officer and managed a $100m/yr P&L and then quit to start my own co. I didn't do an MBA.