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Hastings: Netflix outbid HBO for House of Cards without financial justification
“We had to bid against HBO. This was not Kind of junior content. This was first, you know, lead content. HBO was thinking of it. And we came in with a higher financial bid, even though we couldn't justify it at the time.”
Hendricks: HBO's Early Business Model Split Subscriber Revenue 50/50 With Cable Operators
“One was a model which HBO had. And later Showtime adopted, which was selling direct to consumer, say for eight dollars a month, you could subscribe to HBO, and the revenue from that subscriber would be split. 50% to the cable operator, the distributor, and 50%…”
Peretti: BuzzFeed's branded HBO 'Game of Thrones' quiz hit 1M views
“When quizzes got really big, a month after that, we could have a branded quiz for HBO, which is, how will you die in Game of Thrones? And you answer questions, and it'll be like, you'll be trampled, or you'll be beheaded. And, like, it was, it got a million vi…”