Like my friend @SteveJobs said: MBAs sell Sugar Water(Aerated Beverages) 😂

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All Steve jobs engineering fans conveniently forget that his own chosen replacement to run Apple is an MBA.

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@Elon_Musk Exactky lmao 🤣

John Sculley was a Pepsi Executive, sold sugar water. 😂😂😂

Steve often talked about Sculley’s disease, referring to how true product innovation stops when Product people are removed from decision making and, Sales and Marketing become the dominant voice.

This is often because of the fact that, when companies scale, Sales and Marketing brings more money in. But it becomes the death of innovation that got the company to this scale.

And so the rot spreads.

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Maybe the fault lies in the person. MBA still teaches about strategy, brand management and core finance. If you don't...

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Thoughts on this? I myself did my MBA from a T-1 school and found it value enriching experience that allowed me to crack my role at Uber.

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Too Many MBAs ruining manufacturing companies, which there are not enough of in India. The problem Elon mentioned is ...

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by ZoomyDonutInvestor

Please don’t do an MBA for the sake of doing one

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