Actually not impossible to answer. Yes, all 4 factors do help US tech industry succeed. 1) Google could have made the amount of cash from ads because of popul

Actually not impossible to answer. Yes, all 4 factors do help US tech industry succeed. 1) Google could have made the amount of cash from ads because of population size of US. Had it started in places like Korea, it could've been profitable but not to the point where it can finance other fantastic ideas and projects, starting a snowballing effect. 2) True too. A tech company from US? Everyone else around the world is bound to hear about it. A hot tech company from non-US? Most others hear about it when it's acquired by US company. KakaoTalk makes millions and millions in real profit and has 93% market penetration of a fairly not-so small country but no one outside knows about it. And when Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 billion in paper money, and everyone knows about WhatsApp. 3) Programming is possible only if you know english alphabets. Much tools/methodologies are first available in English. Big factor why large S Korean corporations have sucky software. If you can speak/write/read English well, far more prestigious careers paths are available for you in the mega corporations. Although this is fast changing due to effect of Facebook and other internet success stories. 4) Maybe. But not always. Cyworld in S Korea was a social network service that was launched about 4-5 years before Myspace and facebook. At one point it dominated S Korean cyber space. Then they got complacent and stagnated. And facebook came in. Interesting anecdotal. I heard that Andy Rubin first floated Android OS to Samsung to launch. Samsung already had been one of the big phone makers at that point. Samsung for some reason turned down the offer. I think they knew (probably right) they couldn't make Android succeed. They are hardware makers, weak in software overall, and not part of the English speaking sphere. Some Korean observers chided Samsung for letting Android get away to Google, but I think had Samsung been the main partner of Android, Android wouldn't have succeeded as it has now.