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🗓️ 23 November 2020
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Patrick Bet-David shares a lesson about making sure to pick the right and how by doing so, it can lead to millions.
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0:00.0 | So I'm reading the book No Rules Rules, which is a story of Netflix. |
0:03.2 | Reed Hastings is talking about how Netflix is with this co-author, |
0:06.8 | just a ridiculous book I highly recommend. |
0:08.9 | And there's a part in this book where Reed tells a story when one of their supervisors, one of their leaders, Ted |
0:16.8 | Surandis, who is now the co-seo of Netflix as of July of 2020, I believe, he at that time comes to read with a show they picked with Sandra Bullock |
0:26.7 | being in it is called I believe Bird Box right and so they're all like okay I |
0:31.8 | don't know how Bird Box is going to do. |
0:33.5 | Breed doesn't know, but Ted is the one that was responsible for picking that this is what we're going to do. |
0:38.3 | And we're going to make the investment for something called Bird Box and we're hoping this is going to do great. |
0:44.0 | And Rita's like, I'm kind of indifferent about it. |
0:46.1 | Well, long story short, Bird Box comes out and it doesn't do well. |
0:50.6 | They don't get 5 million of their subscribers watching this, not 10 million, not 20 million. |
0:56.1 | 45 million in the first week of all Netflix subscribers watch the whole thing. |
1:02.1 | 80 million within four weeks becomes a massive |
1:06.2 | hit and they get a bunch of new subscribers because people want to watch this show called |
1:10.4 | Bird Box, right? So there's a scene where Reed goes up to Ted to |
1:17.0 | tell Ted congratulations. Ted says on what? He said I want to congratulate you for picking bird box. |
1:24.0 | And Ted's like, oh, cool, thanks. |
1:26.0 | He says, well, congratulations to you as well, congratulations to you as well. |
1:29.0 | He says, congratulations to me for what? |
1:31.0 | He said, for picking me. He said I don't know what do you mean |
1:33.9 | picking me? He said you had a lot of other people to hire but you pick me. And also I |
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