[mhd]

I don't think this is just about startups in that case, it's about big corporations. Most European ones have been around for quite a while, I think it's not as common for newcomers to join those ranks here. I'd be hard-pressed to name big companies that arose just recently.

We do have a bit more middle-class companies, or at least so it seems. As with almost everything, the US is more about extremes than Europe.