David Gerard wrote:
How do you tell an expert? They have credentials, of course. Er, maybe.
http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html
(Paul Graham is a computer scientist and dot-com winner who pontificates on subjects he understands to a greater or lesser degree. Interesting even when wrong.)
Rather self-congratulatory on the grounds of US first degrees no longer being particularly meaningful! Which rather ducks the point that where you go to graduate school would still matter enormously. Why _are_ people hired in the basis of MBAs? It may be a worthwhile point that credentialism has been concentrated in sectors of the economy well away from technology startups, but even that skates over a few issues (such as how you professionalise a startup when it grows, very visible from here in Cambridge where most tech firms stay small, as opposed to the Silicon Valley model).
Charles