Then you start with an outdated mindset.
The state licenced company model is already dead.
A "startup" should not serve the state. Free competing ideas are what benefit all of us, not just the proprietary start up founders.
All the startups have their 5 minutes of fame. No one will remember Mark Fuckerberg hundred years down the road. People will remember those that built the new protocols for free trade, free movement, free speech...