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A comment on Ask HN: What are examples of startups that died by the hands of Big Tech?.

Re:Ask HN: What are examples of startups that died by the ha... by hadeohedron on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:02AM (#31378620)
While it was more of a tech retailer than a tech company, Blockbuster qualifies.
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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of startups that died by the ha... by scarface74 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:08AM (#31378681)
There is a much longer story about why Blockbuster failed. When it was split off from Viacom, they saddled it with $1 billion in debt as some type of financial engineering.
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