Elon musk roasting MBA degree🤣🤣:: on why mba is worthless and waste of money!!🤯🤯

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[btbanger]

He's not really trashing it. He has a valid point. Best managers are those who have worked in their field for a while, learned as much as possible about its ins and out, then pursued an MBA for a leadership position in their domain. That way, you get expert leaders, not bloated egos that know nothing about the technical side of their products but harass employees who need guidance rather than being chastised.

[shivanshubansal]

got a harvard business school ad right after the video ended 🤣🤣

[baileyarzate]

Experience + education is the best combination

[dynexhobby]

As an engineer with an MBA, I totally agree. There is no substitute for real-world experience. However, MBA's were designed to supplement knowledge not replace it. It helps people that don't have the opportunity to gain business knowledge from their work environment.

[SankiKingOfficial]

“They could be good at PowerPoint presentations” worst burn ever 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[jerry.cray..]

He’s not trashing the MBA. He’s trashing the mindset that some people may have behind what an MBA would do for them. Basically calling out those who think an MBA is their catalyst into leadership. There are a lot of pathways for advancement. I wish hard work and being good at your job was all that mattered, but unfortunately it is not. Otherwise the demographics of executive leadership would look very different in the U.S.

[blackspiderman]

I never understood why corporations would hire a manager with no experience in the company, overlooking a hardworking employee who has been there for years

[bikesbeersbeats]

Its refreshing to hear this, especially as an engineer. It feels like almost all companies went down this route of only MBAs are allowed in management and the engineering can be outsourced or swapped out. I've gotten sick of leaders that dont even know how to use the products they supposedly lead.

[kylehorak]

This was my biggest frustration working as a COO and board members on a publicly traded company. There are people that have a certification for everything you can imagine, yet understand none of it.

[desarrollonuevosproyectos]

I totally agree with Elon, I got my MBA from Penn and most of my classmates didn´t give a damn about the courses, they just wanted to get the degree to go boss around

[o.h.w.]

After working for 23 years, getting my MBA was the best and most rewarding decisions of my life. He’s right, an MBA for someone with zero work experience is useless. Its like sending someone to cooking school who has never eaten then hiring them as a head chef 🤷‍♀️ What misguided hiring manager would ever put a student with zero experience into a leadership position is the real question.

[srkjejz]

Yeah in the "corporate world" it's all about presentation. Who cares whether you have the knowledge and technical edge, you just need to look like you know what you're doing. The thing about working a job is that it's not really about hard work, it's about taking the minimal effort to upward movement.

[nittygritty]

It’s funny he says this but yet they don’t hire people that don’t have degrees pay attention to that, “you don’t need a degree” then they only hire the best with degrees

[ViewsFromTheDeathStar]

Leadership is the only attribute that still till this day has no degree that properly represents it’s qualities. He has a very valid point and if you think he is trash talking you don’t understand what it takes to be a leader. Schools can’t really teach you how to be good at this, at best they can only give you examples. Life is best at teaching this!

[MrNobody]

People might not like my POV but the way I see a MBA is taking the easy path and buying your way to a higher management role bc of 3 reasons.
1) Most things under “business” can self tought
2) As a Comp sci major most comp sci majors or engineering majors that can’t keep up most of the time switch to business because it easy
3) If you wanted a degree that pays extremely well, law or the medical field is only a additional 2 years of school

[lashlarue]

Elon's points are all extremely well taken, however I will also say that personally going back for an MBA (the education, not the degree) was one of the best decisions I ever made. It was the only way I would have been able to stop working long enough to finish my education. Having the education (not the degree) continually enables me to keep my company out of trouble, mostly by being able to stop bad decisions and make persuasive arguments framed in terms of a P&L.

[coldflames]

Yea Ima go with what's been stated, Elon isn't trashing MBAs, he's simply stating that MBA grads have this misconception that they'll be automatically great leaders once they join the workforce because of their completed education. But that's the thing, and education teaches you the fundamentals and sets a great foundation from where you can build on, and eventually establish yourself as a great leader but youre still starting at the bottom if you dont have the work experience

[sten]

thats true because academics teach you whats written in a book but if you want to run or start a business it's very practical, there are no books about this. There is no step by step guide how to start a successful company, it depends on million things and a lot of it you just have to figure out as you go, it's not possible prepare yourself for it in the school

[maxt]

I agree and have an MBA. Too many of my peers had a 'parachuting in' and short cuts mentality and stagnated later. It's a great course for condensing 10 or 15 years of business experience, but it's only a starting point to going deeper. If you really build knowledge on top of an MBA, then business becomes a playground.

[milesobrien]

When MBA's were "invented" it was a ticket to higher management from middle management. A prerequisite was 6 years working in a management position. As Universities saw this as an opportunity to rake in more dough, the business school's departments of Economics changed the requirements having a degree in Business, and then to anyone with a degree and now to anyone with the money. An MBA currently is just more debt.