Answer: HBO

Questions:

• What makes subscription businesses so valuable compared to non-subscription businesses? 
• In five years, which of these three companies do you think will have the largest subscription counts? Explain. 
• Which of these three companies do you think is most indispensable? Explain your answer. 

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Behind the numbers (recode): 

After years of waiting for Amazon to release an actual number, we finally learned yesterday that Amazon now has more than 100 million paid Prime members globally. That’s a nice, big, round number, but how does that number compare to those of other subscription services?

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Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.