Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Making of a Blockbuster
The Making of a Blockbuster: How Wayne Huizenga Built a Sports and Entertainment Empire from Trash, Grit, and Videotape
- Author
- Gail DeGeorge
- Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 354
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: DeGeorge on Wayne Huizenga — the roll-up operator who built Waste Management, then Blockbuster Video, then AutoNation, using the same consolidation playbook three times.
Where I heard about it
- The replies to @WillManidis — named in his thread asking “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2025); the full set of replies is on what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- Blockbuster — The company at the centre of the book.
- Retail — The store economics the roll-up ran on.
- Capital Allocation — Huizenga’s actual craft: serial consolidation.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.