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Why I Don’t Take Business Advice from the Lecture Hall
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Why I Don’t Take Business Advice from the Lecture Hall |
Let me start with this: I have massive respect for college professors. These are brilliant minds: people who teach high-level MBA courses on strategy, economics, organizational behavior, and everything in between. They’ve studied frameworks I’ve never heard of. They’re cerebral. Sharp. Incredibly well-read. But here’s where I draw the line: I don’t seek business advice from someone who hasn’t run a business. That’s not disrespect. That’s clarity. There’s a difference between insight and implementation. Between knowing how something should work and knowing what actually happens when the market punches you in the mouth. It’s not that professors don’t have value. They do. But the value is different. Textbook knowledge is helpful—until you’re 60 days from cash flow collapse, your best hire just quit, and your top product got flagged for a regulatory review. There’s no MBA course that preps you for that week. That’s where you need someone who’s in it. Someone who’s shipping product. Building teams. Losing sleep. Betting their own capital. Someone who doesn’t just talk about risk, they live inside it. I haven’t taken a ton of MBA-level coursework. But I’ve written the kind of checks, carried the kind of weight, and walked through the kind of chaos that only comes from being the one with their name on the line. So when I seek insight, I look for operators. Builders. People who are still doing it, not just teaching about it. There’s value in theory. But there’s power in trenches. So here’s my advice to you—whether you're scaling your company, starting something new, or looking for your next move: Make sure your mentors are living the lessons they’re giving you. Because at the end of the day, growth doesn’t come from knowing the answers. It comes from navigating the fire with people who’ve already walked through it. Want real-world input from someone actually building at scale, not just theorizing about it? Let’s talk shop. I live this daily. |
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