> I am not aware of many innovative products or services that are first available in the EU, and it takes more than a year to appear in the USA (examples are we

> I am not aware of many innovative products or services that are first available in the EU, and it takes more than a year to appear in the USA (examples are welcome). Do you have anything like Klarna yet? They let ordinary people buy stuff online on invoice and handle the risk for the merchants. This makes buying stuff online very convenient. It is a Swedish company which has been active in Europe for almost 15 years. Spotify, while not as innovative, also took many years before they entered the US market. It is pretty normal for Swedish tech companies to focus on the EU market first before entering the US market many years later.