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 saw it: In the reply thread to @WillManidis’s question, “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet). It was listed there as “The Making of a Blockbuster”.
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.