Renee Blodgett wrote in email:
Interesting enough, I’m repping three companies at Web 2.0 Expo this year [esnips, leaptag, and spock, and NONE of the CEOs are American. (Israeli, Turkish and Indian). Interesting isn’t it?
I’d be interested in hearing about other Web 2.0 companies started by non-Americans. (Apart from obvious winners like Skype.) It would be particularly interesting to hear about success stories from overseas that may be bigger than their American counterparts. For example, I’ve heard that OpenBC (now Xing is bigger than LinkedIn, but is much lower profile over here.