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> Do you think Musk copied that strategy from the business school he never went to.

Elon Musk did his undergrad at Wharton.

I guess the statement might be true if you mean "business school" to strictly mean a graduate MBA program. But Musk definitely took business classes that would have been nearly identical to those taken by MBAs.

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Why cut the writer so much slack? Musk went to business school period. Undergraduate, graduate doesn't matter. Doesn't matter what classes he took either. That is not what is talked about in the statement.

Curious why it even matters what is written by the OP given such a glaring and easy to figure out wrong mistake.

According to the OPs response to one of my comments in this thread, this is just his opinion in a short blog post, so we should "deal with it." Doesnt particularly incline me to cut him any slack or to trust that his arguments are made with any sort of rigor at all - it's like there's no sound foundation to even start a debate or engage with what he wrote.

And that is even more remarkable considering what he is trying to do (K12 ed) read this:

https://shafyy.com/about/

What is really strange to me is how HN feasts on blog posts as if they were more special than a simple HN comment. And I do mean 'feast'.

And saying that in reply to you (just read the comments) shows no pride at all in what you are saying ie 'deal with it'.

Oh wow I did not realize that he's trying to do something education oriented, that makes it 1000x worse. I believe that it's important to instill a sense of intellectual integrity and critical thinking ability into the next generation of society, and I definitely don't think OP is instilling that in anyone based on how he handled criticism and refused to engage with sincerity or intellectual honesty in this thread. That's unfortunate.

I was a bit confused by that line. He wasn't even a dropout, he got a business degree along with his physics degree, and "start with a premium market and move to bigger less premium markets" sounds like the sort of case study that could definitely be taught in a business lecture. I doubt that he copied any strategies from his business classes but this particular example is hardly implausible.

He has an economics and physics degree, not business. Did he take business classes and read business books? Probably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

It's a business degree. The undergrad wharton degree just happens to be called a B.S. in economics, but there's only a few economists classes in it, it's entirely a business degree with business concentrations and so on. I think he concentrated (like a major) in entrepreneurship but I might be wrong on that.

Wharton is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. He went to business school and got and completed all the same business requirements everyone else has to take. I studied accounting at university along side finance, business administration, supply chain, and economics students. I'm sure there are plenty of schools who offer a degree just called "business," but most people have a specific business degree. I'm looking at the degree requirements right now, it's all the same stuff everyone has to take: marketing, management, logistics, stats, finance. Unless things were really different back then, an economics degree from Wharton is definitely a business degree.

Economics falls under the business umbrella at most US universities. An Economics degree will almost certainly have included finance, accounting, and marketing classes. Some schools, like my own, don't even differentiate between majors on the granted degree - any students in any of those majors just get a BSBA despite the different focus.

Wharton is similar in that all undergrad degrees are in "economics" even though students still select a major.

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