"kudos to the other French start-ups for finally realizing that the world doesn’t speak French"

Pardon, but I don't believe there is a language the world speaks.

"three companies out of the sixteen had their webpage in their local language"

Does the author mean that thirteen of the websites were in English, and is complaining about the remaining three being in a different language? Would the author hold the same standard to English-first websites to translate them in to a variety of other local languages? If not, what an astonishingly self-centered perspective.