Comments on: What Blockbuster’s dwindling fortunes really mean http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=405 An occasional journal of ideas and work by Michael Fitzgerald Sat, 16 May 2026 17:39:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Richard Jordan http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=405#comment-311185 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:39:33 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=405#comment-311185 I think it's that pivoting thing that startups can do that the big guys cannot. It's not that the big guys cannot make huge leaps it's that they seem to find it hard to do lots of small iterative innovative steps that let them nail down the product market fit before scaling. But you're right - the tendency of everyone to say Blockbuster was stupid and didn't see the future is wrong. It's an execution failure not missing vision. I think it’s that pivoting thing that startups can do that the big guys cannot. It’s not that the big guys cannot make huge leaps it’s that they seem to find it hard to do lots of small iterative innovative steps that let them nail down the product market fit before scaling.

But you’re right - the tendency of everyone to say Blockbuster was stupid and didn’t see the future is wrong. It’s an execution failure not missing vision.

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