[jleader]

I work with a guy with an MBA in statistics and operations management. I don't know if he's "rockstar" programmer, but he writes his own Perl and shell scripts and SQL queries, I've heard he's pretty skilled in SAS programming, and I've watched him dig into some Javascript to figure out exactly why a particular A/B test was giving funny results.

Never bet against the existence of outliers!

[Shorel]

To me statistics is very biased to the nerd side of the fence.

Show me an example with a marketing guy...

[freemarketteddy]

Let me clarify what I mean by "rockstar programmer"....A rockstar programmer is someone who is orders of magnitude more productive that the average programmer of his generation....Someone who can build technologies himself that can disrupt entire industries...Some notable examples in this category are Linus Torvalds,Mark Zuckerberg,Doug Cutting,Mark Andressen etc....Now show me someone in this category from a purely business school background!

I am not talking about the business people who want to dig into Javascript (Although I have a lot of respect for the guy you are talking about).I am talking about someone who can build a technology like javascript.

[dextorious]

Mark Zuckerberg?

How the hell does Zuckenberg belong to this category, with Linus and Doug Cutting?

[freemarketteddy]

well...I think creating a site like facebook in your dorm room as a college student and scaling it is significantly challenging (you are competing against myspace!)...but thats just my opinion!

But yeah I see what you are saying...Doug and Linus are pure technical problem solvers whereas Mark solved business and technical problems.