Built to fail : the inside story of Blockbuster's inevitable bust / Alan Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blockbuster Inc.

Blockbuster Inc--History.

Video rental services--United States.

Video rental services.

Bankruptcy.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Muskego, Wisconsin] : Lioncrest Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

How does an iconic brand die? For more than two decades, Blockbuster was America's favorite way to watch movies. Millions of customers visited more than eight thousand stores around the globe every week, providing more data about movie audiences than anyone in history had ever owned. If any company should have predicted the disruptive forces coming down the pike, it was Blockbuster. But as new threats emerged, none of its five CEOs had answers, and the company collapsed long before its time. Built to Fail tells the complete inside story of Blockbuster's meteoric rise and catastrophic fall. Beneath the surface of explosive growth lay a shaky foundation of financial difficulty, tunnel vision, and missed opportunities. Written by Alan Payne, the man who built the longest-lasting Blockbuster franchise chain in the country, Built to Fail is a cautionary tale for today's disruptive marketplace, explaining why Blockbuster was a broken company long before Netflix ever streamed a single movie.

Contents:

Introduction

America goes to the video store

Blockbuster takes charge

That little old grocery store company from Texas

Welcome to Blockbuster

The decline begins

Order restored?

Death by DVD

The Netflix you do not remember

It's over

McDVD?

Fixing what's broken

Full death spiral

One last chance

The final years

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781544517773

1544517777

9781544517766

1544517769

OCLC:

1262334068