Why are most innovative consumer products and software from the US, would be a more relevant and contemporary question.
Same thing happens in video games. Consider French studio Dontnod; other than its first game Remember Me (set in a futuristic setting), five of its six other games (including the Life is Strange series) are set in contemporary US and the sixth in 1920s London. The US/English-speaking market is just too big to bypass unless there's a compelling reason.
(A good example of a compelling reason is fellow French studio Asobo, which put out the widely praised A Plague Tale set in France during the Black Plague. A sequel is coming, but the main bread and butter of the studio nowadays is Flight Simulator 2020, which is "set" nowhere and everywhere.)
With the success of big American social media companies like Facebook, the public mindset has started changing, but on a glacial timeline - too little, too late.
German internet startups are comparable to their American counterparts nowadays. But the majority of IT jobs aren't at startups, but in other industries - and they still suffer from the image of being a necessary evil rather than an asset.
One example is the desolate state of car-entertainment software even at the luxury brands. No German car manufacturer could come up with something like CarPlay or Android Auto. Not because they don't have the money to acquire the talent, but because of a "what we have is good enough" mindset.
This then ties into something more important that geography. Culture and freedom from physical, psychological and monetary oppression. It is not that people in rest of the world or rest of USA are less smart on average. It is that they live in a system in which some form of oppression exists if someone higher up in the food chain learns of their success and starts beating them down so they never reach greatness as in California. This someone higher up does not even have to be the government or the local mob. Could also be family/relatives and/or cultural standards (better safe than risky, rich is evil, distribute your riches to the poor ASAP etc)
... move to California. Well, at least I did ;).
Japanese consumer growth stalled during their lost decade while Clintonomics gave us a boom. Americans are significantly wealthier than their Japanese or Western European counterparts, with the only exception maybe being Norway. A large, prosperous, and open society breeds innovation.
Mean or average?
The median net worth seems to be higher in Western/Northern Europe than the US though. Eastern Europe pulls down the statistics quite a bit. Canada also has a higher median.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_median_wea...
If one takes into account the social services (education, healthcare, etc.) and general worker protections (mandatory PTO, parental leave, etc.) I think it’s clear the median earner in Western Europe is doing better than the median US worker in quality of life terms.
(on second thought, maybe our wealth comes from our credit-worthiness, aka our willingness to owe each other money)
As far as I'm aware, while the government of Norway has a lot of money, Norwegian people don't. But the Swiss do.
Wasnt his birth father Syrian and then he got adopted by "American" parents so I dont know why the Syrian heritage is relevant here?
Same with software.