This might be an unpopular opinion here, but I think that there already are plenty of start ups (and I do not live in the bay). The author is probably right tha

This might be an unpopular opinion here, but I think that there already are plenty of start ups (and I do not live in the bay). The author is probably right that reducing risk will create more entrepreneurs, but I don't "want more startups". That's how capitalism works, the grand reward of making it big motivates entrepreneurs to do the extra work and take the additional risk to succeed. Of course there would be successes that would arise due to the welfare state... but at what cost?