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On April 25th, 2002 Jim Griffin (Cherry Lane Digital & EVO Lab) made a bet on Longbets.org with Gordon Bell (Microsoft) that "A profitable video-on-demand service aimed at consumers will offer 10,000 titles to 5 million subscribers by 2010.”
Since Netflix has more than 10,000 titles and almost 17 million subscribers, Griffin won, and $2,000 will be donated to the EFF. Would you have predicted a service like Netflix in 2002?
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No, if I did I would have bought netflix stock in 2002... ;-(
Posted by: FearNo1 | November 11, 2010 at 02:17 AM
Not at all. Technology articles were still predicting doom and gloom bandwidth clogging meltdowns. Plus if you remember you would click a video and have to deal with terrible pixilation with buffering.
Posted by: things | November 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM
In 2002 I predicted Reed Hastings would reveal himself to be the messiah and usher in a new era of peace and prosperity for the Earth.
Posted by: Paka | November 11, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Not in my wildest dreams. I would have thought the companies offering internet service would have completely choked the life out of it, not that they haven't tried.
As a side note to this story; I'm glad to see the EFF getting the money. It's a great organization.
Posted by: Tester | November 11, 2010 at 12:03 PM
He must be a time traveler!
*CHUN, CHUN, CHUNNNN!*
Posted by: Crow550 | November 14, 2010 at 08:31 PM
How ironic. Netflix used Microsoft tevhnology, Silverlight, to attain this achievement.
Posted by: Roberto | November 26, 2010 at 11:02 PM