{"id":19,"date":"2023-04-14T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/httpstwittercommbrandolphstatus1646521722831\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T08:16:42","slug":"disrupt-yourself-before-someone-disrupts-your-business-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/disrupt-yourself-before-someone-disrupts-your-business-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Disrupt yourself before someone disrupts your business for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbrandolph\/status\/1646521722831798274?s=46&amp;t=cwFJQPG3Ca5jZJvB_NTIBg\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbrandolph\/status\/1646521722831798274?s=46&amp;t=cwFJQPG3Ca5jZJvB_NTIBg<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"npf_indented\"><p>That it\u2019s possible for a handful of people, with no prior experience in the video business, to take down a 6 billion dollar category leading company? Sure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<div>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"862\" data-orig-width=\"1096\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/2d3731fb96bc778c6f92d73d9ab2c2db\/32ed3db683eac28a-59\/s640x960\/eff77f544006461aed233f349b62c17c207da782.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"862\" data-orig-width=\"1096\" alt=\"In 2000, at the depth of the dot com crash, Reed Hastings and I tried to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for $50 million dollars. They laughed us out of the room.\n\nToday, the company they could have bought for $50 million has a market cap north of $150 billion. And the company that\u2026\n\n\u2014 Marc Randolph (@mbrandolph) April 13, 2023\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<p class=\"tmblr-attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbrandolph\/status\/1646521722831798274\" class=\"post_info_link post_source_app\" rel=\"nofollow\">View on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbrandolph\/status\/1646521722831798274?s=46&amp;t=cwFJQPG3Ca5jZJvB_NTIBg That it\u2019s possible for a handful of people, with no prior experience in the video business, to take down a 6 billion dollar category leading company? Sure. ALT View on Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,12,7],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-case-study","tag-netflix","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}