To me it depends a lot on the stage.<p>A fresh-minted MBA can't, by virtue of their degree, do anything useful for a small outfit. (They may have useful skills as well from a previous life, but if so they're not, for the purposes of this discussion, an MBA; they're a developer or a designer or a product manager or a VP of engineering who happens to have gone and gotten a degree.)<p>I can see a 30-100 person shop taking on an especially bright and unusually humble fresh-minted MBA as a junior product manager or something. Because at that size, you can afford a person who won't pull their weight for a while while they're learning. And it can be great to have somebody who doesn't have to unlearn the bad habits gained elsewhere.<p>This guy, though, wouldn't be at the top of my list. A 25-year-old with circa 2 years of work experience? One who's blogging about how MBAs are the new black? He doesn't really seem to have the "humility and willingness to learn" that Ben Horowitz was talking about.