Again, the amount of money “sloshing around” in US based VC funds is again due to policy decisions made by the US.

By having a diverse set of private pension funds and endowments as LPs this is what funds the VC ecosystem.

France vacuums up its private capital into government pension schemes and dumps it into low yielding government bonds.

Curious to see, it sounds like a rather pretty irrational decision. I don’t see many YC companies suddenly running toward France after securing funding.

Haha yeah. I'm being a bit silly but I do.

The impacts of French labor law have been studied. The European Union is a natural laboratory for the impacts of labor policy. There is a strong correlation between looser requirements for terminating employees and startup formation and risk-taking in business. The Nordics and the Baltics have produced more successful technology firms than countries where dismissing employees is onerous.

The impact of labor laws in France is profound. To avoid hiring employees, many firms bring people on short-term contracts. This disproportionately impacts young people. A tradeoff of the risk of being unable to discharge employees is reduced salaries for the gainfully employed. I have met several French people in tech who left because their post-tax compensation was so low relative to employment in the United States.

This information is unsourced and parroted from various articles in The Economist, Money & Macro podcast, and accounts of European citizens I've known.

Taxation, admin hell, government involvement led by highly uncompetent unelected people that got to make decision on the sovereignty and future of Companies. The only chance for mistral is to escape the grasp of france and its low iq visionless political “elites” or else theyll endup like dailymotion.

Building a company in france and europe is hell even mistral ceo said this a few days ago in front of french officials