Should tech founders get the hell out of Europe?
Actual title appears to be &quot;Europe needs to catch up on pivot culture&quot;. The &quot;get the hell out of Europe&quot; comment appears to be editorializing by the submitter.<p>Reminds me of Jean-Louis Gassée&#x27;s comment along the lines that failure is a key part Silicon Valley, and is a reason for its success.<p>Can&#x27;t find Gassée&#x27;s actual quote, but found something similar at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;technology&#x2F;french_entrepreneurs.fortune&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;technology&#x2F;french_entrepren...</a> from 13 years ago:<p>&gt;  &quot;France has been much more friendly to big firms than it has been to start-ups,&quot; says Isabelle Lescent-Giles, an associate professor of international business at San José State University whose studies compare business cultures in Europe, U.S. and Asia. &quot;Launching a start-up in France is like playing Russian roulette in some ways.&quot;<p>&gt; Failure is not tolerated in French business culture as it is in the U.S., Lescent-Giles says, and both the legal and social consequences of bankruptcy are much more dire in France. The government dominates the economy, and the business elite is almost exclusively recruited from the elite schools, the Grandes Écoles.<p>Still, 1) I recommend changing the titled to reflect the linked-to content, and 2) point out that this doesn&#x27;t reflect a new change in business practices.