- Startups - News Panel with Adeo Ressi and Ryan Block - TWiST #227

0:00-2:30 Welcome everyone, I'm here today with Adeo Ressi, Ryan Block and Erik Lanigan for a News Roundtable Panel. 2:30-3:30 How many years ago did you start the Founder Institute, Adeo? 3:30-4:45 Ryan, how is GDGT going? 4:45-5:15 Welcome back, Erik Lanigan. 5:15-7:45 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show! Everyone tweet your thanks to them @mailchimp! 7:45-8:45 Let's start with some Netflix news. Reid Hastings says they're doing well after the Quixster fiasco, but that they're not focusing on physical DVDs as much as streaming. 8:45-9:45 Who has watched a Netflix streaming movie in the last 60 days? 9:45-11:30 If Netflix had a base price for the basic titles and you could pay more for the first-run titles, would you? 11:30-13:15 Erik: Is Amazon streaming going to be a credible threat to Netflix? 13:15-15:45 Do you think Amazon will be able to make better products than the Kindle Fire or--since they sell is for virtually no profit--does it matter? 15:45-19:30 Jason: Amazon needs to go all-in and double the number of titles. 19:30-22:00 Next story: Boxee just announced a hardware ad-on that allows you to watch live TV. Is this worth the price? How many people use this? 22:00-26:00 Adeo: Do you think Boxee functions will be merged into a TV set? 26:00-28:45 In Silicon Valley, do a lot of people not use cable and just download what they want from bittorrent? 28:45-32:00 If someone bought the BluRay of a DVD and they downloaded the bittorent, is that ok morally <b>...</b>
Author: ThisWeekIn
Duration: 87:50



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