Why represent my point like that? "is required to change startup culture in Europe." If you don't want it, don't change.
Poor reading comprehension skills or a bad faith interpretation. Either way, what you wrote was absolutely fine.
US: "You are my friend, so your success means my success"
Europe: "You are my friend, so your success makes me look like a failure, and your failure makes me look like a success"
the meaning of required in the relevant sentence is not "we are required to do this because it should be done" but rather "if we want that step 2 gets done then step 1 would be required for step 2 to get done."
Because all that scepticism, non-support etc. are like small micro-defeats that will suck the life energy. Not to mention all those taxes which sucks money energy. :-) But the deeper reason I see in in Europe is that everything is biased towards big and old, and not new and small.