Why did you forget the rest of the sentence, "when it comes to the startup ecosystem?"

East India Company was a startup, too

So was Royal Dutch Shell. They actually did trade shells in the beginning.

Yes, but what have you done for me lately?

Certainly Britain’s imperial history speaks for itself. However the last 25+ years of tech startups has shown us the psyche has changed.

Not when it comes to startups, besides the UK keeps going on about what they have done in the past.

So, why hasn't this translated to trillion dollar companies in the UK?

Is a tech company only successful if it has a trillion dollar valuation? So there are only 6 successful tech companies in the whole world?

As always, you have the good counterexamples of critical for the world companies such as ASML, ARM, Zeiss, Ericsson and Nokia (5G) that don't have such high valuations. Does that mean they aren't successful or needed?

Because we've ran out of ARMs...