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Re:It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube by Darrengineer on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:09PM (#34929423)
> Netflix very much had a dominant position in DVD rentals at its height.

Is this true? My recollection being a netflix DVD customer is that brick and mortar rental stores were dominant until netflix streaming upended the DVD rental dynamic. Would love to see some data on it though!

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Re:It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube by scarface_74 on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:15PM (#34929495)
There is a long story about how just when it looked like the combination of BlockBuster brick and mortar + mail in was about to deal the killing blow to Netflix, Carl Icahn came in and snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.

https://hbr.org/2011/04/how-i-did-it-blockbusters-former-ceo...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/how-netflix-almost-lost-the-...

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