Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph revealed they once offered to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for just $50 million after the company was on track to lose $50 million in a single year. Blockbuster’s board laughed them out of the room.
“We tried going to Blockbuster. We tried reaching out to them for months”
“We were doing $5 Million a year, they were doing $6 Billion a year. We had 150 employees, they had 60,000 and we see like an ant to an elephant”
“It took months and finally we got the call and we were at a corporate retreat and all I had with me was shorts, T-shirt and thong sandals and that’s when Blockbuster called”
“They go ‘we’d like to see you tomorrow in Dallas’ and I remember turning to Reed and going ‘there’s no way’”
“And so we did the prudent thing you do when you’re $50 Million in a hole and we took a corporate jet and we fly to Dallas and go up to the 28th floor of this massive sky scrapper into this conference room”
“In come the Blockbuster guys and we make our pitch ‘you run the stores, we run the online business. We will build a blended model’ and it was going good”
“And they asked the big question.. How much and we had rehearsed on the plane”
“We were $50 Million in the hole so we go $50 Million and then there’s this silence in the room and we’re looking at them Blockbuster executives trying to piece together their emotions”
“And it dawned on us they were trying to suppress laughter”
Bill Belichick told his Patriots defenders to get tighter on the Giants top WRs Cruz and Nicks and "make them go to Manningham." It always struck me how close Belichick, arms folded, was to the spot of this catch. Eli Manning literally put it right in front of BB.
CBS Sports' open to the 1986 NFC Championship
The iconic, big-game #NFL broadcasting duo of Pat Summerall and John Madden break down the season's third matchup between the #Giants and Redskins
January 11, 1987
The White Sox had a falling out with @jasonbenetti because they were jealous of him doing national football games. The next year they’re the literal worst team ever and he’s in the middle of one of the coolest stories of the last few decades.
Baker Mayfield balling out in Tampa as soon as the Browns mortgaged their future with the Deshaun Watson $230,000,000 contract is fitting and hilarious
@JustinPenik@madipuppy17 I hear you Justin - but if it’s true? We’re almost 3 quarters into this game and he’s been proven right. The team has done nothing to prove him wrong 😑
@TommyG105 If Jones want to have the low key energy of Eli - he better have the stats of Eli. And he doesn’t. It’s been 6 years. I’m tired of scoring 13 points a game - if we’re lucky
It’s 330am on July 5th, 1985, 18th inning of a game between the Mets/Braves. The Braves are down 11-10 and down to their last hitter. They send reliever Rick Camp, who had a batting average of .062. See what happens.
Beautiful call by legendary broadcaster, John Sterling.