Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Why I Never Got an MBA — and Why It Made Me a Better Entrepreneur

11 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold explains why he never pursued an MBA, attributing it to struggles in the formal school system and neurodiversity (self-reported attention deficit and bipolar traits). He contrasts growing up in an entrepreneurial family with a traditional business background and argues that street smarts—hustle, sales, leadership, problem solving, and spotting opportunities—served him better than the spreadsheet- and case-study-focused training of classic MBA programs.

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It's very different to grow up in an entrepreneurial family versus growing up in a business background. You know, a lot of the people in the college system wanted to go off and do their mba. I wasn't smart enough to get into an MBA school. I struggled in school. I was very distracted in school. I have 17 of the 18 signs of attention deficit disorder. In fact, my ex wife said if I was paying attention during the clinical testing, it would have been 18 for 18. I'm on the spectrum for bipolar disorder. I have 11 of the 11 traits of bipolar. So I really struggled with this classical school system. But being an entrepreneur, it was about some of that street smarts and some of the hustle and some of the sales skills and leadership skills and problem solving skills and spotting opportunity versus the classic models and spreadsheets and case studies that you'd get in a classic MBA program.