Started by Ayodele Bankole (@ayo_archives) ·
Quibi raised $1.75 billion and lasted eight months
Ten-minute 'quick bites' of premium TV for your phone, launched in April 2020, right when nobody was commuting anywhere. It shut down that December after missing its subscriber targets.
6 sources · 21 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “what happened to quibi”
- Ended at
- Roku
The Trail
- “what happened to quibi” (google.com)
- Quibi (en.wikipedia.org)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (en.wikipedia.org)
- Meg Whitman (en.wikipedia.org)
- Vertical video (en.wikipedia.org)
their 'turnstyle' thing reframed shows when you rotated your phone
- Roku (en.wikipedia.org)
bought the whole library for reportedly under $100 million
Keep going
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