[gyre007]

Yep, this is the right take. Somehow entrepreneurs are perceived in the EU as tich freeloaders and not as job and innovation creators who tend to take a lot of risk and go through tremendous pressure while running their companies. I feel the influx of VC money skewed the vision of what it entails to start a company: it is true that the investment slightly "de-risks" founders (emphasis on double quotes!) but that's often an illusion - I don't think people who never ran a company understand the pressure of a founder's responsibility towards their employees, investors, etc... most of the generally very risk-averse Europeans will never grasp this