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"bean-counter MBAs" holders:

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

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Even silly me as the CEO couldn't derail behemoths like Google or Apple with their inertia and their insane stashes of cash and assets. The people you listed are not geniuses. People who built them from scratch are. But those people were not MBA's:

- 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.

Apple and MS had bad CEO moments so your inertia theory is just a theory...

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