This was when Netflix was first getting into streaming and was on only a few devices: Xbox, Roku, and TiVo. In interviews, Bethany told candidates that we had signed up a million new subscribers in just thirty days on one of those three devices, and she asked which one they thought it was. TiVo was really taking off then, so most people said, “TiVo for sure.” But this guy asked her whether there were any special conditions attached to getting a Netflix subscription on any of the devices. She told him that yes, in fact, for the Xbox you had to have a “gold membership.” He then reasoned that it
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This is an amazing story that demonstrate the kind of questions that needed to be asked
