I like your perspective and agree the 0.1% of glamorous tech startups do not define the whole word. I think though that more people lean towards a concept of ri

I like your perspective and agree the 0.1% of glamorous tech startups do not define the whole word. I think though that more people lean towards a concept of risk-taking and innovation (me too). I guess my hypotheses are: a) HN will mostly lean this way too; b) America will mostly lean this way (but I have not lived there); c) if you accept this definition, European business are on average less of this style than American ones (due to government mitigating their risk or them being in established segments) in some - but definitely not all - cases. You are of course free not to accept the definition ;) and I could be wrong about what the majority of HN readers/Americans think. If I'm not, the Atlantic - an American magazine with mostly American readership - is being a bit unrepresentative. As others have said, even if I'm wrong the conclusions seem a little strong for the evidence.