I think you could make that case for most of Europe. I think Europe has this internalized narrative that our tech companies build what worked in the US, but GDP

I think you could make that case for most of Europe. I think Europe has this internalized narrative that our tech companies build what worked in the US, but GDPR-compliant or some other thing. Lots of reasons for that (EU fragmentation, overregulation, hard to raise money), but I agree that the first thing that needs to shift is cultural.