Mike Schur
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Podcast Appearances
You made it.
What are you doing taking on all this debt and expanding?
And what no one realized was they didn't want to be the internet's biggest bookstore.
They wanted to be the only store that existed...
for any product anywhere in the world.
And no one except Jeff Bezos and the people on the inside of the company truly understood that.
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.