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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph
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I really like the approach of Netflix of 10 years ago when it was still small. They hired mature people so they could get rid of processes. Indeed, they actually tried to de-process everything. As a result, things just happened. Non-event was often mentioned and expected in Netflix at that time. Case in point, active-active regions just happened in... See more
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Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
podcasts.apple.com@patrick_oshag I think with so much data and algorithmic-everything, the value of hand curation will continue to increase. 1,000 movies the computer suggests are not as compelling as 1 movie from a person I trust.
I think there must be an analytical corollary to this, but I'm not yet sure what
Simon Sarrisx.comLost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Rand Fishkin • 1 highlight
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Remembering the time one of my investors sent me a competitor’s website and was like have you heard of these guys so I sent back sequoia’s website and said have you heard of these guys.
Jack Altmanx.com“When you look at the history of the internet,” says Jeremy Morris, associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “a lot of the early spaces for communities also became places where people would either trade or barter.”
Mia Sato • Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
It was not until Wal-Mart bought Jet.com in 2016 that retail executives began to broadly wake up and embrace e-commerce. Marc Lore was the CEO and founder of Jet.com and an excellent e-commerce executive who had founded diapers.com and soap.com
Gavin Baker • Why category leading brick and mortar retailers are likely the biggest long term Covid…
When you think about it that way — that Netflix isn’t so much a network as they are a type of marketplace in which consumers can give their attention to creators — it becomes apparent that Netflix isn’t that far off from Uber or Airbnb or any of the other market-makers that are transforming industry-after-industry. Netflix: 1. Is an infinitel... See more