I was a bit of an outlier when I earned my MBA at Wharton in 1999. I was an entrepreneur in a class of almost all aspiring consultants and bankers. What made the situation even more unique was that I did not just aspire to start my own business—I was founding and running businesses while I was still in school. Today on campus, where 70 first-year MBAs launched or participated in startups before arriving, it is the norm. But back then, my entrepreneurship was a bit odd.
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