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It seems to be much harder for European services to be "interesting" in the USA. There have been local counterparts to e.g. facebook before Facebook was a thing
by mto 9y ago
It seems to be much harder for European services to be "interesting" in the USA. There have been local counterparts to e.g. facebook before Facebook was a thing here. Still, we all moved on to FB later. Why? Not sure... Suddenly you find more and more of your friends in Facebook than in StudiVZ, more business partners in LinkedIn than Xing and so on.
Many other companies just moved to the US, for example Unity.
I don't really think it's necessarily a language thing.
- _delirium 9y agoUnity's an interesting case, because they officially moved, but it was only the marketing and business side that moved, while programmers all stayed in Copenhagen. So this gave the impression of being an SF-based company, but SF was purely a biz office. More recently, the programming is actually being slowly moved out of Copenhagen too, for cost reasons, but to eastern Europe, not the US.
- mto 9y agoRight, seems many companies like that "SF/SV/whatever"-company label. That's sad. Goes so far that we have really small, local startups doing pretty impressive stuff... With a more or less empty "office" in SF and then in the hypish articles it's already an SF-based company. Just because it sounds more impressive than "based in Rübenwald, Austria" ;). Patriotism isn't very strong either in German-speaking countries since WWII.