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Billion Dollar Mistakes

Billion Dollar Mistakes

Di: Andrew Gotz
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Billion Dollar Mistakes is a daily business-story podcast about
the decisions that destroyed fortunes: Blockbuster laughing at
Netflix. Kodak inventing the digital camera, then burying it.
Nokia watching the smartphone revolution from the top of the
heap. Yahoo turning down Google. Theranos, Enron, WeWork,
Lehman Brothers. Each episode is a six-to-eight minute story:
how the giant rose, exactly where it went wrong, and the one
lesson you can steal so it never happens to you.

For founders, investors, students, and anyone who has ever
wondered how the smartest people on earth make the most
expensive mistakes in history.

New episode every day.


© 2026 Billion Dollar Mistakes
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  • Blockbuster — The Company That Laughed at Netflix
    Aug 4 2026
    In the year 2000, a broke young CEO offered the king of home video a deal: let his startup run Blockbuster's online business for 0 million. They laughed him out of the room. That CEO was Reed Hastings. That startup was Netflix. This is the story of how Blockbuster — 9,000 stores, 00 million a year in late fees, an empire — turned down its own future, and the three lessons every founder can steal from its collapse.
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    6 min
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