Blockbuster Laughed at Netflix. Then Netflix Ate Blockbuster.

In September 2000, Netflix offered to sell itself to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster's CEO could barely keep a straight face. Ten years later, one of those companies was bankrupt. It wasn't Netflix. Chapters: 0:00 The $50 million pitch 1:20 Why Blockbuster stopped fighting 1:59 The king of Friday night 4:24 The war for your living room 10:11 The fall 13:15 The last Blockbuster on Earth Previous episode — Kodak Invented the Digital Camera:    • Kodak Invented the Digital Camera… Then Bu...   Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0: "Interloper", "Peaceful Desolation", "Voxel Revolution", "Voltaic", "Crypto", "Long Note Four", "Dreamer". Image, footage & music credits and licenses: https://deadtech-credits.deadtech-cre... #DeadTech #Blockbuster #Netflix #TechHistory