哈佛高材生不是創業的料？
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????風險投資人對于曾就讀哈佛商學院（Harvard Business School）的未來企業家有偏見。 ????上周末，知名風險投資人、前Facebook高管卡馬斯?帕里哈畢提亞在一次會議主題演講中對哈佛商學院在校生傳遞了這樣的信息。下文摘自DealBook： ????“這一點對于你們真的不公平，但我認為，你們現在確實遭到了歧視，”風投基金Social+Capital Partnership的創始人卡馬斯?帕里哈畢提亞說。“我可以下個大的賭注，我們中絕大部分人都不會看好你們中任何一位創立的公司。” ????這條消息很是吸引眼球，特別是很多風險投資人都曾就讀于哈佛商學院（包括帕里哈畢提亞的一名合伙人馬蒙恩?哈米德）。而這一點幾乎不可能從科學的角度得到證明或反證，除非能查看所有曾經抵達風險投資人的案頭、但沒有得到肯定答復的商業計劃書。 ????不過，我們可以查一查，有多少高估值的初創公司是由哈佛商學院校友創立的。 ????為此，我根據風險投資人艾琳?李的投資公司名單按圖索驥，這個名單包括從2003年起創立的39家科技公司，它們在非公開或公開市場的總估值達到或超過10億美元（注：她的名單自從去年11月起一直未更新。） ????這39家公司中只有3家公司至少有一名共同創始人曾就讀于哈佛商學院。它們是： ????? 點評網站Yelp：杰里米?斯托普勒曼 (哈佛商學院2005屆, 退學） ????? 社交游戲公司Zynga：馬克?平庫斯 (哈佛商學院1993屆) ????? Gilt Groupe：阿里克西斯?梅班克(哈佛商學院2004屆)，亞歷山德拉?維爾克斯?威爾森(哈佛商學院2004屆) ????但這并不僅僅是哈佛商學院一所學校的問題。39家公司中只有12家公司的共同創始人團隊中擁有MBA學位（比例僅28%），而且這其中只有4家公司擁有多名MBA畢業生。占據首位（略微勝出）的是斯坦福大學（Stanford），這所大學的MBA學生出現在5家科技公司的創始人中（Homeaway、Fab.com、 Marketo、Tableau Software和Workday）。 ????那些注重模式識別的風險投資人很難無視這樣一點：擁有MBA學歷的企業家們創立的偉大科技企業少之又少。實際上，帕里哈畢提亞也可以在全世界其他任何一家商學院發表這樣的講話，包括斯坦福大學。 ????但MBA應聘者別苦惱。因為風投公司依然在招兵買馬……（財富中文網） |
????Venture capitalists are biased against would-be entrepreneurs who went to Harvard Business School. ????That was the message imparted top current HBS students at a conference keynote this past weekend by Chamath Palihapitiya, a current venture capitalist and former Facebook (FB) executive. From DealBook: ????"It's really unfair to you guys, but I think you're discriminated against now," Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of the venture capital fund Social+Capital Partnership... "I would bet a large amount of money that the overwhelming majority of us would not look favorably on a company started by one of you." ????It's a fascinating message, particularly given how many venture capitalists once attended HBS (including one of Palihapitiya's partners, Mamoon Hamid). And it is virtually impossible to prove or disprove scientifically, without access to all of the business plans that have reached VC desks without affirmative reply. ????One thing we can look at, however, is how many highly-valued startups have been founded by HBS alumni. ????To do so, I pilfered Aileen Lee's list of "unicorns" -- a group of 39 tech companies founded since 2003, and which were valued at $1 billion or more by the private or public markets (note: her list has not been updated since last November). ????Of those 39 companies, only three had at least one co-founder who went to HBS. They were: ????? Yelp: Jeremy Stoppleman (HBS 2005, but dropped out) ????? Zynga: Mark Pincus (HBS: 1993) ????? Gilt Groupe: Alexis Maybank (HBS 2004), Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (HBS 2004) ????But this isn't just an HBS issue. Only 12 of the 39 companies had any MBAs within their co-founding teams (i.e., just 28%) and, of those, only four had multiple MBAs. The leader (barely) is Stanford, with MBAs at five unicorns (Homeaway, Fab.com, Marketo, Tableau Software and Workday) ????For venture capitalists who pray at the alter of pattern recognition, it would be hard to ignore how few massive tech successes have been founded by entrepreneurs with MBAs on their resumes. In fact, Palihapitiya could have made the same comments at any other business school in the world, including Stanford. ????But fret not MBA candidates. VC firms are still hiring... |
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