[romanoderoma]

> I find it hard to take sweeping statements like this seriously.

They are hard to take seriously because they are not earnest, it's cherry picking to prove a point, based on false premises.

Scandinavia is not even a country, it's like saying "Benelux has the higher GDP per capita of Europe" but Luxembourg has more than two times the GDP per capita of Belgium, the three don't even speak the same language and 20% of the Luxembourgers have Portuguese nationality.

I imagine that Scandinavia has a good reputation as role model society among his audience so he chose Scandinavia.

I had a Swedish girlfriend, still have many friends there and my wife is half Danish, so I agree with the sentiment, but the facts are definitely not there.

If the parameter is "startups per capita" and the geographical region doesn't have to be a sovereign country (Scandinavia is not) then I would say that in Europe (the continent) London and Berlin have the most startups per capita (London also in absolute numbers), despite being two very different places with a very different idea of what being earnest means.