Obligatory reminder to the utter failure of Walmart to enter the German market a few decades ago [1]: no respect for local labor laws was one thing (most of the competition openly sharted on it just as well), but what really did them in was the greeters, the forced smiles and the chants. Germans don't want to be coddled like Americans, Germans don't want to be treated like a religious cult at work, and the failure of Walmart to see this lost them over a billion dollars.
[1] https://medium.com/the-global-millennial/why-walmart-failed-...
I worked at one of the largest IT companies here in Norway when it got sold to some international corporation. They drove it into the ground in less than 6 months, selling the tattered remains for scraps to our largest competitor.
In my current job I've seen it multiple times with our competitors, where they're just a shadow of themselves after getting acquired by a large multinational.
Good for us of course, we're now dominating our niche.
Which, yeah, sure, but did anyone ever think there was such thing as a "every person in America" or "every person in Korea" market for anything but the most universal of basic necessities?
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I clicked this link, but what I ended up reading appears to just be AI blogspam.
Before release, I thought it would simply be correlated with population density, but I was very very wrong.
It was an educational app, not related to IT…
yunohn•1h ago