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I guess it depends on how you define typical.

30% of unicorns are founded by an MBA and 80% of unicorns have an mba on their exec team: https://qz.com/176063/most-mbas-dont-found-billion-dollar-st...

Is there any data about the success rate of mba founders vs founders from other professions ?

Ryan is not the typical MBA in the ways that MBAs are usually denigrated in the valley.

Can you expand on what you mean? What does the typical founder have? Is this better? Worse?

Much of SV is wary of MBAs. But I don't think that view extrapolates to founders since they are a different breed than employees.

A friend of mine has an MBA, still works as a software dev.

I see people say this online a lot, but everywhere I look there are startups full of MBA's in SF and SV.

Eventually you will need the MBAs to "straighten you out." I'm sure Harvard, Stanford, Columbia etc would be forced to close their schools if they provided no value to their students, as no one would hire them.

In SV they are derided and part of it, IMO, it's because all the investors want a brilliant guy with no sense of organizing. Investors will provide that, for an extra xx% :)