Netflixed Quotes

“Founders often had to step aside to let corporate “grown-ups” raise their babies—that was just how Silicon Valley worked.”
― Gina Keating, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

“For four dollars, customers could watch DIVX disks for forty-eight hours after activating them in compatible players. The disks then became unplayable unless the buyer paid an additional fee for more time. The player had to be connected to a modem to verify that the heavily encrypted disks were playable.”
― Gina Keating, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

“Netflix’s focus on niche and foreign films sharpened with Lowe’s discovery that many of the service’s early customers were Indian students and immigrant technologists whose selection of Bollywood films was limited to what they could find at local Indian markets. At”
― Gina Keating, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

“We have to put a page up on the site saying something like ‘The store is too crowded; come back later,’” Hastings told them. That’s funny, Smith thought. It’s the Internet. It can’t get too crowded. Nor had it occurred to her until that moment that on the Internet the store never closes.”
― Gina Keating, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

“Beneath the surface, Netflix is akin to a think-tank, creating algorithms to maximize the long-term value of each customer that it enlists, orchestrating a complex distribution system and finding ways to reduce its costs of service.”
― Gina Keating, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

“On the surface, Netflix is a massive video store; taking in cash for monthly renting rights and loaning out DVDs to the consumer.”
― Gina Keating, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs