Netflix’s $82.7 billion rags-to-riches story: How the DVD-by-mail company swallowed Hollywood

To dominate streaming today, of course, is to dominate all of entertainment. And Netflix now has a market cap—almost $400 ...
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Blockbuster ‘laughed us out of the room,’ recalls Netflix cofounder on trying to sell company now worth over $150 billion for $50 million

Netflix wasn’t always an entertainment behemoth. In 2000, it was an unprofitable startup offering DVD rentals via postal mail, challenging Blockbuster, whose ubiquitous stores were then a fixture of ...
Variety

Epic Fail: How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix

It will go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in the boardroom: Blockbuster deciding not to buy Netflix. But that’s what could have happened multiple times throughout the early 2000s when ...
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The $50 million decision that destroyed Blockbuster and made Netflix a giant

The fine line between going down in history as one of the great companies of the 21st century and being the protagonist of one of the biggest business failures in contemporary history is marked by a ...
Tulsa World

Blockbuster CEO to exit this year

SAN ANTONIO -- The chairman and CEO of Blockbuster Inc. will leave by the end of the year, ending a high-profile salary squabble with the movie-rental company's board, it announced Tuesday. John ...
MarketWatch

Blockbuster's online sales boom

SAN DIEGO (CBS.MW) -- On its conference call Thursday, Netflix conceded that its higher-than-expected subscriber cancellation rate in the third quarter "seems to coincide" with the rollout of ...