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It's a simple difference of market size. The US has 300M people, the UK has 60M people. The UK market is not big enough to bear big successful companies (by HN
by user5994461 6y ago
It's a simple difference of market size. The US has 300M people, the UK has 60M people.
The UK market is not big enough to bear big successful companies (by HN and VC standards). The first thing a UK company has to do is extend to the US to be able to grow.
- throwaway894345 6y agoHow does this work? We’re all participating in a global market (especially in the software world).
- toast0 6y agoI don't think that's the whole difference. If you were into video games in the 80s and 90s, there are lots of stories of developers starting their own thing; the barriers were quite low (a lot of people distributed floppies in ziplock bags going to stores talking to store managers); and you see that in UK and US, and sure there's more in the US because there's more people. But I can't think of any internet sites/products that started that way in the UK.