Roku

“Most media executives, when they start getting into streaming, they underestimate Roku because they all have Samsung TVs or an Apple TVs, and so They're always surprised when they find out that we're their number one source of customers.”

“My goal was always to be the platform for TV that, you know, just like phones have Android and PCs have windows and I felt like TVs needed Roku.”

“You know, there's, I don't know, 70, eighty billion dollars a year spent on TV advertising in the US alone, and it's all moving to streaming.”

“Right, and that's actually our biggest business, is selling, selling video ads.”

“Right. And so they, I think they got 20% of the company. So after, Netflix invested and we started shipping the Netflix player, we then decided to raise venture money. And so we raised money from a venture capitalist called Menlo Ventures. And then Netflix dec…”

“I think our competition continually underestimates how simple consumers want their TV experience to be. Like television, they want to sit down, maybe drink a beer, and they want to watch something as quickly as they can. And they don't want to get confused try…”