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Yes, I dont code, I drive product vision and business, and completely see where you are coming from. However I need crackpot coders on my team. I view them as equals because I know I'd have no product without them however you are 100% correct in your analogy.

This leads to the question of whether entrepreneurs, who have the ingredients you mention, are born, or if an MBA can teach that?

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It completely depends on the individuals. I for one, always wanted to an entrepreneur. But felt that I need certain skills. I needed to learn things like pricing model, forecasting, project management, supply chain management, accounting and data analytics the theoretical way via MBA. Also, I wanted to strengthen my marketing and networking skills. I took the MBA route and am very happy I did that. I am confident of the above things now. Even though I might not be doing all/any of the above, I can at least understand what my employee is doing and be realistic in expectations (I also have 3 year software development experience btw). On the other hand, someone would already have figured these out wouldn't have to put money and time into an MBA program. Reiterating - it completely depends on the individual.

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