All those would be tagged under "cost center" and cut down by precious bean-counter MBAs
Tim Cook — CEO, Apple
Satya Nadella — CEO, Microsoft
Sundar Pichai — CEO, Google & Alphabet
Katrina Lake — founder & CEO, Stitch Fix
Stacy Brown-Philpot — CEO, TaskRabbit
Jeremy Stoppelman — cofounder & CEO, Yelp
Tony Xu — cofounder & CEO, DoorDash
Jack Ma — cofounder & CEO, Alibaba
Susan Wojcicki — CEO, YouTube
- Apple - Wozniak, Jobs
- Google - Page, Brin
- Microsoft - Gates, Allen
HN's sentiment against MBAs is pretty justified. It's typically some non-MBA ingenuity that kick-starts those uber-succefull companies, not the bean counters.