My wife has an MBA from a top university so I can speak to this from some experience. I think an MBA still provides value for those looking to take established

My wife has an MBA from a top university so I can speak to this from some experience. I think an MBA still provides value for those looking to take established startups and turn them into viable, Fortune 500 businesses. These are the folks that become the "adult supervision" during the later stages of a company as it approaches that mid-market sweet spot and starts trying to become a large cap public company. There are areas around finance, operations, and strategy where the MBA still provides a lot of value. You can certainly learn those things on the job if you decide to stay at a startup beyond the early stages. But it carries a bit more risk and mistakes can be a lot more costly. I don't think most of the crowd here is all that interested in working at companies during these later stages, hence the strong anti-MBA sentiment you see in a lot of HN posts. The biggest problem, I think, is that there are now too many folks with MBAs that are skilled only for the later stages of the company. These folks often lack the raw talent needed to succeed in the early stages and get a company off the ground.