There is still a long way to go before things are at all equal, though. Just look at the difference in salaries for technical roles between the SV giants and European businesses. There are kids right out of university with negligible skill and experience whose starting salaries in the US tech hubs are several times what a position at the top of the scale with a relatively good employer would pay here in the UK, and even taking into account cost of living, it's clearly a different world. The US giants can afford to do that partly because of the huge amounts of VC funding that set them up a few years ago.
