In 2002, two years after that meeting, we took Netflix public. Despite our growth, Blockbuster was still a hundred times larger than we were ($5 billion versus $50 million). Moreover, Blockbuster was owned by Viacom, which at that time was
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“One day a man walked into a London agency and asked to see the boss. He had bought a country house and was about to open it as a hotel. Could the agency help him to get customers? He had $500 to spend. Not surprisingly, the head of the agency turned him over to the office boy, who happened to be the author of this book. I invested his money in penny postcards and mailed them to well-heeled people living in the neighborhood. Six weeks later the hotel opened to a full house. I had tasted blood.”
― Ogilvy on Advertising
― Ogilvy on Advertising
“fundamentally, experience precedes technical knowledge. We”
― The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
― The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
“Over time, I came to the conclusion that designing an excellent user experience was as much about preventing negative experiences as facilitating positive ones.”
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
“Taste is developing a refined sense of judgment and finding the balance that produces a pleasing and integrated whole.”
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
“Within this process, every individual act of building is a process in which space gets differentiated. It is not a process of addition, in which preformed parts are combined to create a whole, but a process of unfolding, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes the parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting.”
― The Timeless Way of Building
― The Timeless Way of Building
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