not true. Eastern Europe has great engineering talent, India, southeast asia all have great engineering schools and talent.
If there is a scale, it is outside US, it just requires some footwork to find and hire people - which most managers are too lazy to do. Because they are nog saving their own money, it is shareholders money so who cares?
I’ll believe it when I start to see powerful startups becoming global brands out of those places.
Maybe that was true at one time, but is it still true? I think China seems like the counter example, since these days China has been innovating much more rapidly than the US on many things.