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Michael Rubin, who used to be Netflix's Director of Product Management, posted a photo he took of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings checking out a closed Blockbuster store in 2008 (posted with permission). I would love to know what Hastings was thinking at this moment.
Rubin started his career working for Lucas Film and wrote a book about the experience: Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution.
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Posted by: FB Developer | July 09, 2012 at 05:41 AM
One hopes he was thinking, "I should remember why this happened."
Posted by: dt | July 09, 2012 at 08:56 AM
I don't know how much it was NF that led to the down spiral; as it was just the poor customer service that Blockbuster handed out day in and day out. They acted like they did not care about their customers at all.
Posted by: BoB | July 09, 2012 at 09:58 AM
"I should split off the disc division and open up B&M stores, I can then raise the prices. I'm such a brilliant businessman"
Posted by: moviegeek | July 09, 2012 at 12:28 PM
"Michael, we can purchase this space for a future call center for Qwikster. I expect Qwikster will be a big hit and this location would be fantastic space to handle all of our customer's phone calls praising the service!"
Posted by: CordCutter | July 09, 2012 at 02:19 PM
He's actually still trying to return that late DVD rental that started the NF deal!!!
:)
Posted by: BoB | July 09, 2012 at 03:36 PM
"Part 2 of my master plan is complete."
Netflix sometimes seems like a South Park episode. They take out all of their major competition and people to stop buying as many DVDs. Cartman/Reed then gets everyone using their rental service to switch to streaming, and everyone stops using DVDs or buying them. All because they wanted 2 50 from him.
Posted by: Jimbo | July 09, 2012 at 11:29 PM
Ha Ha this is awesome. I know EXACTLY what store this is. The location is 1730 Mission Street in Santa Cruz California. As some of you may know, Hastings lives in Santa Cruz, and this store is only a couple of miles from his house. The pic was taken when the building was deserted, but it is now a bicycle shop.
Posted by: NetflikzMunny | July 11, 2012 at 04:00 AM
"Is that two midgets getting it on? That's so hot!!!"
Posted by: Shooby Moonbeam | July 12, 2012 at 03:23 PM