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Netflix📰 lt’s 2000, and Netflix co-founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph offer to sell their fledgling DVD rental business to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster laughs them out of the room. Fast forward to 2025, Netflix boasts over 238 mil

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Blockbuster could have crushed Netflix early on, but corporate egos and lack of vision destroyed them.

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