If you are a tech startup founder in Spain, you are in the wrong place.

Look at this famous guy below…

Antonio Banderas cuenta su anecdota despues de los Oscares con el dueñ… | TikTok

Let me summarize the video:

You do not build a country with a 75% of people who want to become civil servants. You build a country with people that take the risk.

These words reminded me of my stage in Los Angeles, USA, when in my previous startup MultiDub we were surveying the well-known Majors Warner, Universal, Sony Pictures, etc. to close our first contract. My colleague Slim and I were invited to have dinner one of those days with some American friends whose home was located in north LA, in a borrow of the city primarily owned by wealthy families. I can remember that a lot of people welcomed us after arriving, and I asked Slim: — Why are there so many people here today? — Because they are celebrating Romina’s (fictitious name) first company. Romina was by then a 16-year-old blond teenager, a slim body (somehow an outlier given the obesity pandemic in the USA) and porting a warm smile typically present in innocent kids.

Everybody sat down around the table and started to congratulate her for the steps taken…