MBA Dropouts: Ditching School for Work
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Natasha Pecor just finished her first year in the MBA program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. But after interning this summer at Freestyle Capital, a San Francisco venture capital firm that finances early-stage startups, the 27-year-old may not pursue a second year.
Co-president of the High Tech Club at Duke, Pecor may join the small but growing number of would-be-MBAs who abandon their degrees in favor of the startup circuit. “That sort of accolade doesn’t make a difference here,” Pecor says of an MBA in the world of early-stage startups. “People care about the competence level I’m at; they don’t care how I got there.”