It's worth noting that Czechia is small 10mil citizen country. So are many other eu countries. The language/culture/policy difference is a real decentralizing s

It's worth noting that Czechia is small 10mil citizen country. So are many other eu countries. The language/culture/policy difference is a real decentralizing showstoping force. What it means is that many countries have their startups just filling vacuims of small local services (their ubers, airbnbs, craigslists, groupons etc.) companies you've never heard of. At best the countries find "niche" in tech. For example for Czechia it's been security - AVG, Avast, Eset and Kerio. Tooling - InteliJ, Netbeans. And gaming - apart of big merger+acusition which led to 2K czech you have many smaller players like Madfinger. Also kiwi.com is czech so it's not like there completely no tech scene. Education is great. It's just mindset is not so much go big or go home. People in europe seem to be ok with moderate success.