I am an MBA and I started Stratechery as a side project while at Microsoft.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/852462627636772864 …
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And, were one to generalize, all startups are failures. I prefer to remember there are exceptions.
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The fact that all insights are generalizations doesn't mean all generalizations are insights.
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I can agree with that

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I see what you did there. But there is in fact an interesting and important pattern in startup origins.
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I agree! Not trying to be a smart aleck. I've just experienced personally a whole host of SV biases, including the MBA one
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Which, incidentally, I got becuase I was even less employable before it :)
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Agree with both
@benthompson@paulg :) Arrived in SV with an engineering +MBA+ consultant + 6 months pregnant = LOW odds of employment -
But HUGE Thanks to both
@ycombinator and@a16z for giving me a chance!
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I think the word you're looking for here is "by and large"? MBAs are generally more risk averse than people with just undergrad degrees.
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I think most people are risk adverse. Including the startups that wouldn't give me an interview because my resume was too weird
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Hmmm.. I don't think this can ever be settled without actual "numbers". I'll just go and wait for a
@stratechery article on this then.
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