Coincidence?...I doubt it.

[Gilligan]

Barry's fingerprints are all over the steepest decline in that curve. The rebound starting at Trump's election..hoping that's not just a "blip"...

And hopefully China's giant push runs out of gas at some point...

About two-and-a-half decades ago, the U.S. was home to more than 95 percent of global startup and venture-capital activity. Today, that share has been cut to a little more than one-half. And the pace of that decline is accelerating, with more than half of the fall occurring in just the past five years.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/10/america-losing-its-edge-startups/572323/