An MBA graduate from Kellogg compares his degree to the Founder Institute, a three-month startup program. MBA case studies teach general concepts disconnected from your own business. Founder Institute makes you work directly on your company, identify what's missing, and get mentorship to fill those gaps.
you have your MBA from a reputable school. Kellogg. Yeah, from Kellogg. And so maybe you could talk a little bit about like how this is different, because I think, you know, people kind of assume they look at this program, it's got a curriculum, they're like, oh, is this school or is this, you know, what is this, right? And so, you know, how would you say FI benefited you outside of, you know, your MBA? What were some, you know, similarities, differences? Could you talk a little bit about that?
Yeah, so when you're getting an MBA, you're learning concepts, you are doing case studies, but those are case studies that aren't related to your business, okay? So those case studies are really for sort of helping you understand how to apply concepts. So the difference is, is that, You know, you're going through the Founder Institute and you're actually focused on your company. So you're actually focused on your startup. And you begin to sort of— you do, you come to the program, if you kind of look at the whole thing as a puzzle, you do come to the program with some of the puzzle pieces. But then as you're going through the program, you begin to understand what puzzle pieces are missing and what you need to go after to order to get those puzzle pieces in place. And so I would say yes, if you've gotten an MBA, that experience is helpful, but what the Founder Institute experience provides is it allows you to spend those 3 months of really being focused on your business and understanding what it is you still need to be successful And then it also gives you all of these mentors and all of these resources that you can tap in order to fill in those missing puzzle pieces.
