John Felkins
speaker
3,385 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
John Felkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Netflix was a small mail-order DVD business and it was losing money.
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But in 2000, Blockbuster had the chance.
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To buy Netflix for $50 million, and they just laughed at them.
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And now Netflix market value is $394 billion.
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That's billion with a B.
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That wasn't a $50 million mistake that they made.
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It's almost a half a trillion dollar mistake that they made.
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Trillion with a T.
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At the same time, the dot-com explosion was happening.
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People could see how it
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It would change entertainment forever.
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Customers wanted more efficient ways to watch movies at home.
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And Netflix solved customer problems that Blockbuster was actually creating on purpose.
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Netflix didn't have late fees.
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You didn't have to drive to the store to get the movie.
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Netflix even had more movies to choose from than Blockbuster.
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They had unlimited rentals for one low flat fee.
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The market was changing.
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And Blockbuster's next big mistake, they didn't change with it.
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They protected what they had instead of building towards what was possible.
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