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Despite current leadership, none of the FAANG companies were founded by MBAs.

I suppose it depends what you mean by "run", but Sheryl Sandberg went to HBS

zuck still runs fb.

Part of the acronym in spirit: Satya also has an MBA

Looking at AMZN beyond Bezos (who, let's not forget, worked in finance before he founded AMZN): Jassy went to HBS and JAW to Sloan. Since they are both 'CEOs', feel like they need to be taken into account, similar to how it's correct to regard Sandberg as the one who 'runs' FB on a day to day basis.

Thus amongst FAANG its only N which is not 'run' by an MBA. Sarantos, who runs content, is a college dropout. Yes, Hastings does have a MSCS from Stanford- but he was also a liberal arts undergrad (Bowdoin) and a Peace Corps volunteer. Of all of them, he's got the most interesting story to me.

This isn't to say MBA's haven't screwed things up- of course they have. But so have engineers. Apparently the idea of engineers building cool tech with no use case has never occurred to anyone else here.