"This $500,000 MBA Degree is WORTHLESS" - David Guttman 💰 EP140
The Money Mondays
Dan Fleyshman
4.3 • 483 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Money Mondays, we dive into real-world entrepreneurship, investing, and what college doesn’t teach you. David Guttman, serial entrepreneur with both eight- and nine-figure exits, shares how mindset, strategy, and timing shaped his career. Alongside him is Anna Prudchenko, an 18-year-old who skipped the traditional path to build her first company with David’s mentorship.
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Who is David Guttman?
David Guttman is an entrepreneur, investor, and now helping entrepreneurs scale to 7, 8 and even 9 figures and exit their businesses. His journey started humbly, managing a help desk at 24 before discovering the power of equity during his first IPO. That lesson fueled a career that led him to eight- and nine-figure exits and recognition as a three-time Inc. 500 entrepreneur. A graduate of Brown and Wharton, David’s perspective was further shaped by surviving a terminal cancer diagnosis in 1990, an experience that redefined how he approaches both business and life. Today, he channels his experience into mentoring and teaching through The Anti-MBA: What Business School Never Taught Me.
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Who is Anna Prudchenko?
Anna Prudchenko is an 18-year-old entrepreneur and majority owner of a new venture she launched under David’s mentorship. Instead of following the traditional college route, she jumped directly into business, learning the ropes of building and scaling a company from the ground up. With a focus on taking bold action over waiting for credentials, Anna is part of a new generation proving that entrepreneurship has no age limit.
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| 0:00.0 | Talk us through about investing literally, it must be a quarter million dollars into this program. |
| 0:05.0 | Here's what I think about my warden MBA. |
| 0:11.0 | Wow. |
| 0:15.0 | This is your actual degree. |
| 0:26.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Monday's podcast where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity. |
| 0:31.2 | And today, our guest has done all of those things and he's brought a special guest with |
| 0:35.1 | him, which I rarely ever do. |
| 0:36.7 | So I'm very excited about this one for today. And for very, very, very, very important. This podcast is not just about you. It's people from your past, present, and future. There might be people that listen to this episode when you hear about the things that he does, the things that he's worked on, things that he's built and created. It might be impactful not just just for yourself, but someone in your social circle, your friends, family, followers. So don't just listen for yourself. Think about who else this might apply to over the years. We grew up thinking it's rude to talk about money. I think it's ridiculous. We have to have these important discussion about money with your friends, family, and followers, because how do I get a loan what are taxes what's a FICO score should I rent should I buy |
| 1:13.5 | should I lease we have to have this with your friends, family, and followers, because how do I get a loan? What are taxes? |
| 1:11.6 | What's a FICO score? Should I rent? Should I buy? Should I lease? We have to have discussion because it's part of your daily life. Money is not the root of all evil. There's a lot of very important tools that money can do for your people in your world. From your mom and grandma to your kids, to your friends and everyone in between, it's a very useful tactic. Okay, all that being said, as you guys know, this podcast will be under 40 minutes because |
| 1:30.6 | the average workout is 45 minutes. |
| 1:32.7 | The average commute to work is 45 minutes. |
| 1:34.3 | This episode will be between 33 and 38 minutes for your listening pleasure. |
| 1:37.8 | Without further ado, David, if you can give a quick two-minute bio, swing it straight to the money. |
| 1:42.3 | Sure. |
| 1:43.6 | David Gutman, been a serial entrepreneur |
| 1:45.4 | for the last 35 plus years. Undergraduate computer science from Brown, MBA from Wharton. |
| 1:53.9 | But then, honestly, I've been an entrepreneur since then, had an eight-figure exit, a nine-figure exit. |
| 1:59.7 | I've been a three-time ink 500 entrepreneur, |
| 2:02.0 | and launching my first course on basically how to be an entrepreneur. I love it. What's the name |
| 2:08.1 | of the course? Actually, Anna came up with the name. It's called the anti-MBA what the Wharton |
| 2:12.3 | Business School never taught me. Oh, interesting. I might have to talk about later. I see the degree |
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