Entrepreneur | Build... • 2m
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.)
Passionate about Pos... • 5m
Netflix didn’t just beat Blockbuster—they exploited its biggest weakness. In 2000, Blockbuster made $800M from late fees. Customers hated them. Netflix saw an opportunity. Instead of charging per rental, they launched a $19.99/month unlimited plan.
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How Blockbuster's One Offer Almost Killed Netflix! So Blockbuster was founded in 1985 as a movie DVD rental company. They had huge stores, stocks of all movies, and movie reviews from their employees. It was good place to shop at but the pain point
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Vote for the next series! 1) Analysis of top Y combinater funded startups (even international) 2) How X company beated their competition. For eg: Netflix and Blockbuster 3) Top bootstrapped Startups. Like Zoho, Zerodha 4) Best buisness stretegy
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