Not only is it extremely limiting, there are so many explicit assumptions and so little reasoning in this article, it's barely even anecdotal. If it were, that

Not only is it extremely limiting, there are so many explicit assumptions and so little reasoning in this article, it's barely even anecdotal. If it were, that's still one person's experience/opinion; as someone else predictably pointed out in this thread, Mark Zuckerberg. No, you're not him, and even if you were it wouldn't matter, because if he'd come along and someone had popularized an FB-like product first, chances are he'd still be just as obscure as most of us here. Further: I’ve talked to more CS majors who say, “I want to be an entrepreneur” than I care to share... Then they may be in the wrong program, unless they mean "I want to be a YC alum" or "I want to be a technical co-founder." An "entrepreneur" is someone who deals in business, not just a programmer who doesn't work for anyone else. If that's their goal, they shouldn't be in CS. In the reasonably likely case they do want to be something more specific and technical, hopefully they've thought about it further before committing to such a statement.