Who really killed Blockbuster Video?
Land of the Giants
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from Slack. |
| 0:03.0 | You have to get your work done. |
| 0:05.0 | But what if you and your team could do it better? |
| 0:08.0 | Slack is a productivity platform that connects all your team members together instantly. |
| 0:12.0 | It's built to help your team with a host of features, like huddles for quick check-ins, |
| 0:16.0 | and clips for recording and sharing video. |
| 0:19.0 | Slack also makes it easy to search and find the right information you need. |
| 0:23.0 | You can even integrate the apps you use in your normal workflow, |
| 0:26.0 | like your calendar or product management tools. |
| 0:28.0 | So you stay focused on the work that matters and get more done. |
| 0:31.0 | Learn more at slack.com slash productivity. |
| 0:36.0 | One of the analysts asked John and Antioca the CEO of Blockbuster, |
| 0:40.0 | what do you think of Netflix? |
| 0:41.0 | And he was furious. |
| 0:43.0 | He's like, do not ask me about that stupid little company. |
| 0:48.0 | They're a nat, they're nothing, they're nobody, |
| 0:51.0 | and people are never going to give up their video stores. |
| 0:56.0 | It's almost impossible to imagine now. |
| 0:58.0 | But not very long ago, if you wanted to watch a movie at home, |
| 1:01.0 | you had to leave your house to go rent a movie from Blockbuster. |
| 1:05.0 | Ridiculous, right? |
| 1:07.0 | Read Hastings Thoughts 02, so he created Netflix, |
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