Because entrepreneurs are so high status, there is an enormous industry focused on teaching and promoting entrepreneurship. Stanford, which has an outsized influence on the tech scene, has a Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at its business school, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the engineering school, and so many other groups devoted to entrepreneurship that there is an umbrella organization called the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network that coordinates them all. The Princeton Review now ranks both graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs. Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) holds activities in 115 countries and is supported by President Obama and dozens of other world leaders.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 678