Name: 當你被逼到懸崖邊緣時 ► 請記住這句話！- Marc Randolph 馬克．倫道夫（中英字幕）
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This is an idea that everybody said, that'll never work.

Right before we hit that 500,000 subscriber mark, this is about two and a half, maybe two years in, we finally had cracked the code and figured out what the business model would be that would work for our business.

And all of a sudden customers were flying in and money was flying out, but that was not a problem until the dot-com bubble burst.

And then all of a sudden in a matter of months, are going, we're gonna go out of business.

We are hemorrhaging because we're bringing on customers so fast.

And that's when we did this thing that a prudent entrepreneur does.

We finally got the meeting by two months in because we were a gnat compared to them.

And we flew to Dallas and we went up to this huge skyscraper with the cavernous conference room with the endangered hardwood conference table, whatever, and pitched.

We were saying, we'll run this online business.

We'll find these incredible synergies and we both win.

And then they asked that big question, which is how much?

And I was there with my co-founder, Reed Hastings, and he had been tapped to make the ask.

So he kind of leans in as confidently as he can.

It was a $50 million and they laughed at us or pretty close.

And it was this tremendously humbling moment.

And we were flying back from Dallas, back to California.

And I remember being crushed because this was gonna be that magic, this deus ex machina, as they say in the film and book business where the heroes are against the cliff and it's gonna be, and all of a sudden the hand of God plucks them to safety through some miraculous intervention.

But not only was the miraculous intervention not gonna come, they were gonna compete with us.

And in some ways it was this classic entrepreneurial moment.

We recognized that, well, like my dad used to say sometimes, the only way out is through, that we would have to take them down ourselves.

And now that company they could have bought for 50 million is now valued at 250 billion.

And the company which had at the time 60,000 employees and 9,000 stores is down to one store.

And the company which had at the time 60,000 employees