Guess what happens with any promising European startup (including Eastern European ones). It's acquired by American companies. Europe doesn't have a ton of lar

Guess what happens with any promising European startup (including Eastern European ones). It's acquired by American companies. Europe doesn't have a ton of large and high paying software companies, but it does have a ton of good developers. Romania probably has produced half a million software developers over the past 30 years (in a population of about 20 million), yet it basically doesn't have any large software companies. Probably the biggest you might have heard of are Bitdefender or in the past Softpedia. Or the alternative, foreign companies set up shop there to scoop up the local developers. Using Romania as an example, Bucharest has R&D centers with at least hundreds of developers each (some with thousands), for: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, SAP, UIPath, Huawei, Honeywell, IBM, Cognizant, Ericsson, Ubisoft, HP, etc.