I worked as a product manager in a bank and didn't have a good answer back then. My tech peers always asked, why can't we build X instead of using vendor Y.

After self-studying what is taught in an MBA with books, blogs, podcasts, and online courses, I get the value now. Like the quote in goodwill hunting, you can do it for a little more now than the dollar fifty in late charges at the public library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdsjNGCGz4&t=7s

Here's how I look at it now. Would you go build a mobile app, a website, cloud platform after reading a few blogs? Your friend tells you this, what would you think?

But don't we do this with business? Design? etc. It's a trained skill like any other. You go and learn, train, practice to hit a baseball. Paint a portrait. Engineer an application. And so, you combine art with science to discover and build a business.

I like this quote from Noubar Afeyan. An MBA is all about learning and practising how to do #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiS-5OAWFQU&t=132s

It shouldn't be this rare or hard to start a business. The way people think about entrepreneurship and innovation is that it's unruly, chaotic.

It's an illusion. It is a profession like all others:

1. You create new technology, a new ability to do something to invent.

2. To innovate, you:

- Discover how to apply it to the real world.

- Design a way to bring to market for a profit. Launch in the market.

The problem with all those takes on MBAs is we all start life appreciating our own craft more than other peoples'. Hey, I did too. But over time, you learn to appreciate all crafts as much as your own.