Mike Schur
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And everyone thought it was a terrible idea.
And jump 25 years later, it's the only store that exists on earth, right?
Every single product in every single facet of your life
you go to Amazon.
Netflix did a similar thing.
Netflix sent you movies in red envelopes, and you could hold them as long as you wanted and send them back.
And it was like, wow, they're going to destroy Blockbuster.
But internally, they were like, no, we're going to take over entertainment.
We are going to replace the concept of television.
Kids in the future are
they were thinking, we'll no longer say what's on TV.
They will say what is on Netflix.
Netflix is input one on everyone's home system.
And no one understood that except them.
Every time they would release a statement that said, like, we turned a profit of $400 million last year, they would also announce, and we're investing $12 billion in content.
And then they would be like, this year we made $1.2 billion.
We're investing $20 billion.
And, like, they just had ambition that was far beyond anything that anyone could understand.
They were satisfied only when they are the only company.
And so this acquisition...