Complacency, top heavy companies with aged decision makers and the immense difficulties and bureaucracy and risk to personal assets that come with founding a co

Complacency, top heavy companies with aged decision makers and the immense difficulties and bureaucracy and risk to personal assets that come with founding a company in Germany are largely to blame. Software is seen as a necessary evil in Germany, not as the main focus for profit. You can directly see this in most medium to large companies which sell ERP or management software (like Scheer) pay their sales reps a lot more than their developers, even though the latter produce their value.