It is increasingly obvious to all but members of the US Senate and the denizens of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley that scaleable means global. While US "industrial digital" companies engage in a self-satisfied selfie and limp beyond the borders of the US, Alibaba is tearing across the globe. There was a time when the US took the technological hill; when Amazon led with e-commerce, when the US Army introduced EDI to resupply surrounded Berlin, when Fedex, UPS, ToysRus, Walmart, Mcdonalds and Costco introduced the genius of US brains and logistics to the globe. There was a time when US corporate leadership led Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber to write "Le Defi Americain," the American Challenge;  when US corporations and technology dominated the globe. Now Chinese capital is financing US-born innovation and transplanting it to China.

The vaunted geniuses of Silicon Valley lecture about scaleability while ignoring the globe. No US-based trade and finance platform has gone global. 

 

The scaleability-limp disease does not infect the US alone. The U.K. Now realize that they need a "one-stop-shop" for global trade. It is recommended that s commission be established to deal with the issue. Commissions are how bureaucrats address issues. Problem solvers and business men and women solve problems by establishing secure portals and platforms.

 

I guess we're leaving it to the Chinese and Alibaba to figure it out.