I'd suggest that the problem is that trying to serve a market 10,000 miles away simply doesn't work. Had the same people who started Alibaba stayed where they were but tried to build a US-centric company instead, I'm sure that we would not be talking about them now. You need to bootstrap from what you know.
In fact, there's no guarantee this US expansion is going to work either.
I'd also observe that people would often interpret a Silicon Valley company trying to build a solution for some other culture as arrogant, parochial, or both, so there's really no winning here.
In fact, there's no guarantee this US expansion is going to work either.
I'd also observe that people would often interpret a Silicon Valley company trying to build a solution for some other culture as arrogant, parochial, or both, so there's really no winning here.