the idea that Americans are more innovative hasn't been true for quite a while - look at Nio, Xiaomi, Huawei, ByteDance, and countless other examples.

I wonder how many employees at these corporations previously worked at Tesla, Apple, Cisco and Vines...

In Huawei's case, the binaries shipped with the products still had the Cisco copyright strings in them!

> back in 2008 when Facebook was tiny on a global scale, there was a German €100m company called StudiVZ that dominated the social networking in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with about 10m active users.

What happened?