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Should Entrepreneurs Do Business School
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"MBAs don't make great founders" is a notion created by sample bias, where people who want typically get an MBA are most often not startup founders and don't have the same aspirations.
If you take a great founder and give them the MBA skills, that would only make them better at business.
That said, MBA is expensive, and if you can afford to take on the risk, you have to prepare for it.
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