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How Quibi Burned $2 Billion in 6 Months

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David looks at the recent failure of Quibi. He talks about what Quibi is, what they were up against and why they failed and ended up shutting down after just 6 months.


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0:00.0

So imagine you got this great business idea to compete with Netflix Hulu Amazon and you go pitch the idea to NBC Universal

0:06.1

You go to Walt this and you go to time Warner Warner brothers

0:09.0

JP Chase Goldman Sachs Alibaba and this universal and at the end of every single meeting these guys say yes we're in and you

0:16.2

don't raise a hundred million dollars not a half a billion dollars not a

0:19.1

billion dollars you raise 1.8 billion dollars and you launched this company April 6th

0:25.8

2020 at a time where Disney is having record-breaking subscribers

0:30.6

of Disney Plus where you see Netflix King, blowing up 34 million people

0:35.0

watching the first 10 days.

0:36.7

You end up seeing all these guys getting the subscriber records and six months after you raise

0:41.2

1.8 billion dollars, you shut down. You know what that

0:44.6

company's name is? Quibi. Wall Street Journal comes out two days ago saying

0:49.0

Quibi is shutting down barely after six months.

0:54.1

Can you imagine this now.

0:55.2

Now let's unpack this Quibi business model.

0:58.0

Let's see what they are.

0:58.8

So Quibi, a couple of different things you need to know about

1:01.4

Quibi.

1:01.8

Number one, their whole idea was we're going to make 10 minute videos, right?

1:04.8

So 10 minute short films and we're going to compete because nowadays,

1:09.1

you know, the younger audience wants to watch movies on their phone. They don't really want to go out and

1:13.8

watch it on TV. They're going to watch it on their phone, so let's make

1:15.8

short 10 minute clips. Let's go get the biggest A-Listers, right? I'm talking

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