One of the costliest mistakes in modern business history was made by former Blockbuster Video CEO John Antioco.
In 2000 Blockbuster was riding high, and a struggling little DVD-by-mail rental service called Netflix desperately wanted a meeting to try to sell to the video giant.
Blockbuster finally agreed to the meeting, but showed little respect to the fledgling Netflix by giving owner Reed Hastings less than 12 hours notice to get from California to its Dallas headquarters the following morning.
And after Hastings said that he would sell Netflix for $50 million, the Blockbuster CEO struggled to keep from breaking out in laughter.
No deal was ever made, obviously.
Flash forward to today: Blockbuster is dead and Netflix is the king of streaming services (worth about $150 billion)
Mistakes as big as Blockbuster’s aren’t common, but it’s near impossible for entrepreneurs to never make any mistakes at all.
When you have to make a decision, it helps to have a sounding board to bounce ideas off of.
That’s why I let all Secret Coach Club subscribers “pick my brain” (something I only do for SCC people and my clients)
If you’d like to have me in your corner, the deadline to get in for February is tonight at midnight (EST):
