In an upstart company operating on a movie-rental-by-mail system offered to sell their company for million to Blockbuster mdash the home movies and video game rentals king at that time Netflix had roughly subscribers while Blockbuster had millions and millions of them Blockbuster passed on the opportunity to purchase their little competitor The result Today Netflix has more than million subscribers and is worth nearly billion As for Blockbuster well it went bust None of us can predict the future nbsp We rsquo re tempted to believe that we rsquo re in control of our lives and that our plans
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