> Every major technological startup turned away from BSD/Apache 2.0 licenses due to inability to compete with cloud providers without technological edge.

No, there are plenty that still use permissive licenses.

GitLab uses MIT and a custom license for EE: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/licensing.html

Deno uses an MIT license and has some secret sauce that is currently just in hosted services AFAIK: https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/main/LICENSE.md

PlanetScale has hosted services and an open source tool called Vitess which is Apache licensed: https://planetscale.com/ https://github.com/vitessio/vitess

Finally Redis has a BSD licensed core, a source available license for additional modules, and a closed source license for enterprise. https://redis.com/legal/licenses/