Douglas Rushkoff: Netflix and Salesforce's original business models were built on an unlimited amount of capital to burn in the hopes of building a large enough customer base that they could eventually monetize that in a profitable way. He says both companies are seeing customer declines, which is because you shouldn't chase unprofitable customers.rushkoff: Do you think Netflix still has a future? I believe that David's position as Netflix is going to cash burn itself out.
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