"It was scary," remembers Patty McCord, who was hired by Hastings in 1998, eventually becoming Netflix's chief talent officer. "Late fees were the gas in Blockbuster's tank; everybody hated them ...

With more than 9,000 locations, Blockbuster was the biggest video rental chain in the world ... He found it in “House of Cards,” a remake of a BBC miniseries, which swapped the British ...