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Quibi Was an Incredible Display of Billionaire Hubris

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The ill-fated app has come to represent everything wrong with the streaming apocalypse.

Laura Bradley 

Senior Entertainment Reporter

Speaking with reporter Benjamin Wallace for a Vulture feature earlier this year, Quibi CEO Meg Whitman distilled the new streamer’s essence to just a few words: “Water, by the way, is free,” she said.

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Laura Bradley

Laura Bradley

Senior Entertainment Reporter

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