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Re:If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? by neutronicus on Friday December 02, 2011 @08:14PM (#3306543)
"Quickster" was also an absolutely terrible name. Orders of magnitude worse than "Netflix" which communicates perfectly what that company does.
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Re:If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? by sukuriant on Friday December 02, 2011 @10:25PM (#3306796)
Netflix was not originally an internet streaming company, that came later. I'm not sure I could call Netflix a "perfect communication of what the company does", given the name came around when the internet was only used to select your next mail-received movie.
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Re:If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? by learc83 on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:23PM (#3306905)
From what I've read his goal was always to start a streaming movie company. He just did the DVDs by mail thing while he waited for technology to catch up.
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Re:If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? by sukuriant on Saturday December 03, 2011 @01:21AM (#3307089)
Really? Truly fascinating that he had that foresight, then.
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