[deepGem]

Speaking from personal experience, it's easier to pick up the traits of customer development/leadership/design with an engineering background. On the contrary, I've seen some of the smartest non engineer MBAs give up on programming. Not sure why.

[soneca]

I am not particularly smart, nor a MBA, or a McKinsey. I am learning to code to be useful, to build something useful, not build something great.

I would say that smart MBA try to learn to code to build something great, the next Dropbox, something that match their ambitions. When patio11 is your reference, not Bill Gates, or Zuckerberg, it is easier to keep your motivation. (Please, don't read this as me saying patio11 is not a great engineer, i couldnt know, just to illustrate the difference of ambition)