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Nawal

Entrepreneur | Build... • 3m

The Missed Billion-Dollar Mistake No One Talks About 🔥 In 2000, Netflix offered to sell itself to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster laughed them out of the room. Fast forward — Netflix becomes a $200+ billion behemoth. Blockbuster? A dusty memory, a single store left as a meme museum. Moral? Sometimes the biggest opportunities are wearing the wrong clothes. Sometimes they look too small, too risky, too "stupid" at the moment. In startups, it's easy to dismiss the next wave it looks chaotic, uncertain, amateur. But it’s chaos that builds empires. Today’s misfit idea is tomorrow’s unicorn. Stay foolish. Stay chaotic. Stay hungry. (PS: If you're building something that sounds too crazy to work, you might just be on to something.)

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Vishu Bheda
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Very very costly mistake that leads to extinction of blockbuster

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PRATHAM

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one of the best startup stories

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Harsh Kumar

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Can you please vote for the future of world's first community marketing platform. Startup Name: "Plixipy" Link: https://medial.app/idea/plixipy-f81531d0453ad It will be very helpful ☺️

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