Public postmortem
Aereo
“A thousand tiny antennas could not tune around one large Supreme Court.”
Here liesAereo2012 · 2014“A thousand tiny antennas could not tune around one large Supreme Court.”
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What happened
The honest ending.
- Cause of death
- Aereo’s $8 streaming service depended on a tiny antenna and personal copy for every subscriber. The Supreme Court treated it like cable retransmission, collapsing both the legal premise and the margins.
- Lesson left behind
- Regulatory arbitrage is a countdown, not a moat. Chet Kanojia’s next company, Starry, kept the wireless ambition but built broadband infrastructure it could sell without a courtroom loophole.
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The build ended. The builder did not.
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