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in this instance, you could construe that what pg says is contradictory. on one hand, go to school for things that are interesting to you regardless of how they may apply to a startup. on the other hand, he says an mba is useless for startups.

but if you tease out the strands of advice, you'd see that you shouldn't do an mba if you think that will prepare you for a startup. you could (and i'm extrapolating here) do an mba if the subject matter is genuinely interesting to you (as it was for me). i learned a lot in my mba program that i was genuinely interested in learning.

and if you decide to do an mba, take all the quantitative classes you can. you want to practice and hone skills, not just be versed in theory. also, applied economics might be interesting to you.