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Stories of the founders who built the modern economy. A new documentary essay every two weeks.

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01 The Premiere
LB-001 · Netflix · Reed Hastings

The Five Bets That Made It Inevitable

A company that mailed DVDs made five platform bets in a row. None of them looked obvious at the time. This is how the pattern worked, and what it cost to run it.

28 min June 15, 2026
LB-001 28 min
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Premiere
Netflix: The Five Bets That Made It Inevitable
Reed Hastings · June 15
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LB-002 In production
NVIDIA
Jensen Huang

The decade nobody wanted the chips.

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LB-003 Researching
Salesforce
Marc Benioff

Betting the company on a category that did not exist.

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LB-004 Researching
Amazon
Jeff Bezos

Why the bookstore was always a wedge.

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