{"id":5391,"date":"2015-07-18T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2015-07-19T00:02:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T04:02:53","slug":"is-a-stanford-mba-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/is-a-stanford-mba-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a Stanford MBA Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>I get asked all-the-time: &#8220;Is an MBA from Stanford worth it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes<\/p>\n<p>Yes, attending GSB&#8217;s worth it. But don&#8217;t just hope and ponder. Do!<\/p>\n<p>Take the $170k. Set it aside. Spend $0 of $170,000.<br \/>\nThen learn the MBA online.<\/p>\n<p>Apply what you learned to financially benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Take the financial benefit and re study. Start an account the deposits the cash financial benefit. Let&#8217;s call this account &#8220;number 2&#8221;. When #2 hits $170,000. Then take the MBA on &#8220;house money&#8221;. Or don&#8217;t.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/stanford-business-school\/is-a-stanford-mba-worth-it\/attachment\/image134-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5392\" title=\"image134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image134-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image134-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image134-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image134.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see, this is how you guarantee an upside. I minimize risk with a hashtag #RMRMRE<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people do not start an account number 2<br \/>\nA lot of people have an account number 2 with zero dollars.<br \/>\nA lot of people don&#8217;t study the coursera content very well.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re making 120k, you&#8217;d love this advanced stuff<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re making under 120k. You&#8217;re gonna need to take the coursera course 3 or 4 times before you pay the 17k (or\/and make the 17k.<\/p>\n<p>#RMRMRE is explained here<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?<wbr \/>v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/stanford-business-school\/is-a-stanford-mba-worth-it\/attachment\/image227-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5393\" title=\"image227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image227-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image227-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image227.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang I get asked all-the-time: &#8220;Is an MBA from Stanford worth it?&#8221; Yes Yes, attending GSB&#8217;s worth it. But don&#8217;t just hope and ponder. Do! Take the $170k. Set it aside. Spend $0 of $170,000. Then learn the MBA online. Apply what you learned to financially benefit. Take the financial benefit and re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-business-school"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}