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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage.

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Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

From around 1990 to 2010 Microsoft arguably ruled the information-technology industry. Despite having won the desktop with the introduction of Windows in 1985, and having the first mover advantage of introducing a mobile operating system several years before Apple or Google, Microsoft has lost the battle for mobile.