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- Founded
- 2011
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The analyses
The Money Machine · Business Model
Federal Court Says MoviePass Knew Its $9.95 Math Was a Lie and Used It to Pump a Stock
MoviePass sold all-you-can-watch movies for $9.95 a month and burned roughly $21.7M in cash a month doing it. The story says they were visionaries who got the math wrong. Federal court says they knew the math was a lie — and used it to pump a stock.
8 min
The Fall · Decision Forks
MoviePass Set Its $9.95 Price to Fund the Parent Company's Liquidity Crisis, the SEC Says
The legend is bold-but-naive disruption: $9.95 for unlimited movies, burning cash until the model broke. The SEC's own complaint tells a colder story — the price was set to pull in upfront cash for the parent company's liquidity crisis, not because anyone thought it would work.
8 min