I took ETL last semester and loved it! My favorite speaker was Aaron Levie. He was the prototype of the typical silicon valley startup story. built/launched his product from his dorm room in 2005. dropped out of school. created a company worth millions of dollars... etc. I think the reason my peers and I look up to entrepreneurs is because they are (as the article says) "living examples of the exceptional untapped potential within each of us". Success stories like Aaron's makes us believe that we can change the world. Sadly, for every successful entrepreneur that gets invited to speak at Stanford there are a thousand others who have failed. If it were up to me I think we should have another seminar to counter balance ETL, an antithesis of ETL, where unknown entrepreneurs can come to speak about their failures. so that students can see the other less glamorous side of entrepreneurship. In fact, David Friedberg, who spoke at ETL a few weeks back and his advice was why you should not do a startup. There's an article, from an ETL student's perspective on David's speech here - http://rainmakerslive.com/startup-thoughts/why-you-shouldnt-....