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Originally Posted by rick-l

It is much easier for someone with a technical background to pick up say marketing, sales or management skills than it is for a salesman, marketeer or manager to become technically oriented. Would a BA in political science have started Pelican Parts?

Lets not get carried away. Don't confuse education with intelligence. My guess is that Wayne probably had the capacity to start this business pre-MIT. There's a number of folks that have done amazing things without any formal education.

Otherwise I agree to an extent, but it depends on the person. I work with a number of engineers that don't have the ability to balance a checkbook or sell a bottle of water in the desert, but have amazing technical design ability. I happen to be more balanced, and picked up a business management minor along with my aerospace engineering degree. Personally I found my business classes to be the easiest and most interesting classes that I took in college. Probably why management is my career path of choice.