Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Sudden Dea...

With all the hype around portable and smart speakers, it’s easy to forget that they didn’t always exist. In fact, it took one fateful meeting with Monster Cables and Interscope Records to really kick the industry off. In this one-episode Business Battle, we explore the time when ...  Show more

Ninety-six percent of Americans now shop online, snapping up everything from rare coins to industrial-sized barrels of hand sanitizer. Almost half of those purchases take place on one website: Amazon. But before sales were a click away, Walmart was the top dog, decimating main st ...  Show more

Netflix killed our trips to the video store and ushered in the streaming era. But when Netflix started out, it was a fraction of the size of Blockbuster. It should have been crushed, and almost was. What went wrong? Hosts: Peter Kafka & Rani Molla This podcast is a production of ...  Show more

We're diving back into another episode from the Foundr Archives to revisit my interview with Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix. It’s every entrepreneur’s dream: create a product that is so disruptive to an industry, that it forces a shift in how we do business. Be so good, th ...  Show more

Netflix en difficulté, Reed Hastings a tenté un coup de poker en proposant de racheter le service Blockbuster Online. Antioco, le patron de Blockbuster, a poliment écouté l’offre et accepté de la présenter à son conseil d’administration. Ce qu’il n’a pas dit à Hastings, c’est qu’ ...  Show more

In Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect, Recode’s Peter Kafka and Rani Molla examine how Netflix got where it is today and whether or not it can maintain its streaming supremacy. Hear from Netflix’s founders and top executives as well as its competitors, critics and more - cove ...  Show more