The original comment was "if you can conquer US market. you can pretty much do that elsewhere". US Fast Food has not conquered street vendors. A quick look at

The original comment was "if you can conquer US market. you can pretty much do that elsewhere". US Fast Food has not conquered street vendors. A quick look at a French theater [1] shows 2 American movies, 2 Spanish movies, and 1 French movie. French culture might be dominated by foreigners but 2/5 isn't domination. Movies also have a similar network effect to software where it's preferable to see the same movies as other people to have a talking point. Social media (WhatsApp included in here) is probably accurate but that's software which I already gave an out to. > There's something to that, I think. There's definitely something to making a compelling product that takes over a local market being desirable by a foreign market. I just don't think there's something special about winning say the US car market over winning the Chinese car market (There is something special about winning the US/Chinese market over winning the Irish market though -- Size). However, for many goods that aren't protected by a monopoly a local supplier is going to be able to undercut your distribution costs. That's why Finish McDonald's uses Italian beef [2]. [1]: https://www.ugc.fr/films.html https://www.ugc.fr/films.html [2]: https://www.mcdonalds.com/fi/fi-fi/tuote/pepper-n-bacon.html https://www.mcdonalds.com/fi/fi-fi/tuote/pepper-n-bacon.html