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The $50 Million Mistake: Netflix vs Blockbuster

How Blockbuster laughed at Netflix's $50M offer, and paid the ultimate price. A story of innovation vs comfort.

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Script16 scenes

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In the year 2000,
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a struggling startup begged an industry giant to buy them for fifty million dollars.
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The giant was the undisputed king of video rentals.
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The startup? A tiny mail-order service losing cash fast.
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Two founders flew to Dallas,
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offering to run the giant's online brand in exchange for store promotion.
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The asking price? Fifty million.
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The CEO literally laughed them out of the room.
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He called the internet a passing fad,
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choosing the safety of physical stores over the uncertainty of the future.
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You know that startup as Netflix,
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now worth hundreds of billions.
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The giant filed for bankruptcy just ten years later.
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The lesson? Comfort is the enemy of innovation.
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When they laugh at your idea, let them.
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Because tomorrow, you might just own the world.

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