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What do you need to compete with Youtube or Instagram, in the market of casual video streaming, and at the same time compete with Netflix or HBO, in producing premium series and movies?

Well, let’s say you will need at the very least two things. First, money. A lot of it. And then maybe something unique, something that truly stands out.

Quibi is the video streaming app that went just for that earlier this year, and it has been struggling to claim a place on the market. Yes, the money part they had. But the unique-factor, which they also claim to have, let’s say it’s very debatable.

We will talk about Quibi in this Company Forensics and determine if this high-profile startup is as doomed as it looks to be.

#startups #Slidebean #Quibi

0:00 – Intro
1:11 – Quibi: dumbest thing to ever cost a billion dollars
3:13 – Quibi: Bad timing
5:25 – Quibi: Celebrities everywhere
7:41 – Quibi: Two veterans CEO’s against the odds

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41 comments
@moonjabes

Start of the video:
Me: Yes, yes it was

@MrTeeri4

Why didn't they just spend a few thousand dollars set up a cheap website and doing an MVP to test the idea? Then they could see if they got 10 people to fall in love with it, perhaps next step 100, then 1000 then so on,. Give me a Billion $ and I would test so many ideas on the cheap

@jacobrobertdesio9265

They thought we would want ten minute episodes of shows and only put it on mobile? That is silly

@nithinsrivatsa4726

4:33
Blaming Covid-19 for his shitty app. Lol. Why am I surprised, this is a company that had the audacity and stupidity to price themselves at Netflix rates, and for what? YouTube with famous actors? How stupid do you have to be to think that would work? Quibi could be launched in 2019 or 2021 and nothing would change. No one's going to pay Netflix prices for 10 min videos when you can easily fill that 10 minutes with a gazillion apps: YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or literally any app. Not even mentioning Spotify and the rise in podcasts.

@TESkyrimizer

People keep making products for millenials but millenials are one of the poorest generations lol

@moizkhan8057

This is such a bad idea lol. I can watch everything on netflix on my phone and pause whenever I want

@Escaleirex

in the last seconds of the intro isn't that a call of duty sound?