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The thing is you don't need an MBA to be more of a generalist. You can read all the class material at a fraction of the price. Not to mention in SV you have a lot of other venues for networking.

I talked to a graduate of Stanford's program about his opinion on it. He told me the biggest value the program gives you are new contacts (He didn't really think the class content was anything special), but since he didn't want to go to Wall St/ or to Big Corporation X (where the cred helps at times) he felt that he should have just skipped it and instead just dived into a startup (using his MBA school money for the venture instead).

Good MBA programs typically cost from $30000-$50000 per year and it doesn't even include opportunity costs.