Blockbuster - The Origin Story

In the eighties, when the video business began, it really started on the backs of a lot of really creative enterpanurs. In long story short, wain hisinga and a team of his people bought blockbuster in 19 86. And because he saw it as an industry that he could consolidate, and the oth was really just starting, and he didn't feel like he had any real good competition,. He would just buy. That's exactly what he did. A thogh, those first handful of stores in dallas were monstrous successes. The book is thorough; there are a lot of things i did not know about the very beginning.