Why Startup Founders hate MBA? Is MBA not worth it now?

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Is MBA from India in 2025 worth it? Why startups founders like Nikhil Kamath, Anupam Mittal are calling MBA not worth doing? Does it signal a change or a personal bias of startup founders and entrepreneurs who come from specific background? Is it because they know something more or because they don’t understand the ground reality of jobs without doing an MBA from India?

What makes students still opt for MBA while the social media buzzes with MBA is dying narrative. Why are MBAs still offered crazy salaries, and why do MNCs still have MBA preference for candidates? In this video, I decode everything that is required for you to understand different perspectives and decide whether it is worth doing an MBA for you or not!

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I am Ananta Chhajer, an IIM Ahmedabad alumni, a strategy consultant and a content creator

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Date: November 13, 2025

26 thoughts on “Why Startup Founders hate MBA? Is MBA not worth it now?

  1. The answer is yes and no. If you have no industry contacts, good capital then MBA from good institutions can unlock good opportunities. But you are already son/ daughter of an industrialist or have good flow of capital . MBA might be just waste of time as you already planning to scale family business. Choosing either of the option based on the circumstances is not wrong but endless criticising other options without acknowledging ones privilege is pure attention seeking. One more thing all these founder who criticise MBA or other equivalent degree will never hire from tier2 or tier3 colleges.

  2. MBA IS NOT KILLED neither it is going anywhere, it's just part of being cool jumping on nuts bashing something. I saw ads of Masai school running n8n automation tool would kill trad – MBA like since when did automation open source developed by someone else entirely compete to a post graduate degree like the landscape of things is just verbal vomit.

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