It's a horrible title really. Entrepreneurialism has always been cool. Everyone has always envied Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Fred Smith's mythical paper is the

It's a horrible title really. Entrepreneurialism has always been cool. Everyone has always envied Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Fred Smith's mythical paper is the stuff of business legend. Nothing has changed here. But like the article correctly states, what's changed is that entrepreneurialism has been introduced to the middle class. It's been made so easy that all those future CEO's and ladder climbers are starting to realize there is another option. High quality talent sees another way of living life - and they like it. Not touched on in the article is the fact that this change in viewpoint from "climb the corporate ladder to success" to "launch a business and iterate to success" could be as revolutionary as the printing press. Think about it - the appeal of being an entrepreneur attracts the same people that would find getting an MBA and working their way up to C level positions appealing. We could - in effect - be at the very early stages of an extended "brain drain" of talent leaving large corporations without the leadership they need to survive. As the company finds itself less and less attractive to high-end talent, they struggle to keep up. And the spiral continues. What we actually may be witnessing is the very early stages of the death of the corporation as a viable entity - all due primarily to the birth of the internet. That type of changes is revolutionary - we're talking industrial revolution scales here. We're living in amazingly exciting times. I would love to see what the history books say about us 250 years from now.