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Wood: Steve Jobs rejected Netflix app on Apple TV over hardware rivalry
“And I think Reed sent an email to Steve Jobs saying, are you guys interested in this? And Steve Jobs replied, no, we're not interested because we hear you're building Hardware that competes with Apple TV. And so why would we ever do business with you? You know…”
Hastings: Netflix reached $50 million in revenue at 2002 IPO
“So when we went public two years later, we were at fifty million.”
Hastings: Netflix raised $50 million from LVMH in February 2000
“So we closed that round of them investing fifty million. I don't remember the valuation, but it was a good valuation. And that was February of 2000, and then March of 2000 is when the bubble broke.”
Grateful Dead newsgroup was the most popular community on early internet
“In fact it's kind of mind-blowing, but rec.music.gdead, the Grateful Dead news group, was the most popular thing on the entire internet. It was like, in terms of traffic, it was the Netflix of its day, just like the text postings going back and forth”