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"This community is getting worse every day." You've been in "this community" for less than 3 months according to your username. I'm not SV technorati, and I'v
by JPKab 13y ago
"This community is getting worse every day."
You've been in "this community" for less than 3 months according to your username. I'm not SV technorati, and I've run a business, as well as been a founder in a non-tech business that grew to 150 employees. I know business, and I know what I said is correct.
"SV technorati" is itself a stereotype.
- dylangs1030 13y agoIt doesn't matter how long he's been here. His statement about the community may have been hyperbolic; do you have a real rebuttal against the content? Or will you nitpick one sentence you can attack? SV Tehnorati is a stereotype because he's drawing comparisons, he wouldn't normally make a steretype argument unless you had already. The point was to demonstrate a different perspective, and this entire thread is just demonstrating a disgusting level of stereotyping for a category of people - MBAs. The bottom line is that there is nothing inherently evil or pejorative about an MBA. Judge human beings on individual merit, not on a piece of paper.
- dkrich 13y agoYep, absolutely correct. Well, save for Nike, which was founded by an MBA. Oh yeah, and Apple, whose CEO has an MBA and was personally selected by Steve Jobs. Well, now that I think about it, Meg Whitman, the current CEO of HP and former CEO of eBay has an MBA. And wasn't Bonobos founded by a Stanford MBA? I think Birchbox was born by a group of MBA's as well. Except for those and probably thousands of other exceptions, your logic is water-tight and well-reasoned. Kudos, sir.
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- bskap 13y agoBut Apple's founder didn't have an MBA. You know, the guy that came back in 1997 and brought the company from the brink of bankruptcy after it's collapse under the leadership of John Sculley, MBA.
- yuhong 13y agoSo I wonder what positions the good MBAs tend to be in vs the bad, for example which kind are more likely to be big company CxOs.
- jlgreco 13y agoEither it is a meritocracy for them, in which case we can draw some really nasty conclusions using people like Sculley, or they aren't operating in a meritocracy, which jives with the other accusations leveled at them....
- ericd 13y agoDid I miss HP turning around and becoming an awesome company again? Has Apple been doing as well as it did under Jobs? Do you think it still will be in 5 years?
- dkrich 13y agoDid I miss HP turning around and becoming an awesome company again? Apparently. Have you checked the stock market lately?
- ericd 13y agoYeah, we're in the middle of a massive bull run which has swelled every company in my portfolio like a balloon. And the correlation between stock price and awesome company in the short run is really really tenuous. Many of the less savory leaders out there have a penchant for making short term profits look awesome by killing off investment in long term prospects, and the market eats it up.
- Apocryphon 13y agoPerhaps all stereotypes are harmful and should be avoided.