Shocking things you NEVER knew about Netflix – Way before kids these days were” Netflix and Chilling,” the little media company that could had its eyes set on broadcast domination. Since 1997, Netflix has been waging wars with traditional media and from its hard work and dedication, the Internet TV network has completely reinvented not only where we access content, but how we watch it too.
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With 69 million subscribers in 60 countries around the world, 100 million hours of television and movies are streamed daily! (Wow, you guys. We all really need to get a life.)
With the service streaming on basically every screen available to the human eye, it’s safe to say that pretty soon we will all be Netflix’s slaves in some weird, dystopian Hunger Games-esque future. But don’t worry, finding out what that slimy Frank Underwood is up to will be worth every cent we shell out to them and every millisecond of our forlorn freedom.
Allow yourself to further indulge in your Netflix obsession with these 10 unbelievable (and awesome) things you never knew about your favorite TV streaming service.
10. Netflix Tried to Sell to Blockbuster
In one of the most idiotic business decisions ever, the now-defunct Blockbuster actually said no to acquiring the fledgling streaming company in 2000. The red envelopes were struggling with only 300,000 subscribers at the time and losing money fast. CEO Reed Hastings flew to Dallas to meet with the…uh…”blockbuster” giant, which at the time had about 7,700 stores open and was Scrooge McDuck-diving into mountains of gold and diamonds. Hastings pitched that Netflix would become Blockbuster’s own streaming service, selling 49 percent of the company to them and taking on the blue and yellow moniker. And Blockbuster said no…to a company now worth $20 billion! (Insert one very obnoxious Nelson-from-The-Simpsons laugh here.) Blockbuster owning and innovating the streaming world? That’s a scary thought.
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