Is Mubi Really Worth $1 Billion? Inside Efe Cakarel’s Plan to Make the Global Streamer Cooler Than A24

Mubi, the upstart indie film company that made “The Substance” into an Oscar sensation, traces its origins to Tokyo on New Year’s Eve 2006, when Efe Cakarel, then a vacationing Turkish-born film fanatic, couldn’t find a copy of Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” on any video store shelf. Frustrated, he imagined a […]

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Is Mubi Really Worth $1 Billion? Inside Efe Cakarel’s Plan to Make the Global Streamer Cooler Than A24
Mubi, the upstart indie film company that made “The Substance” into an Oscar sensation, traces its origins to Tokyo on New Year’s Eve 2006, when Efe Cakarel, then a vacationing Turkish-born film fanatic, couldn’t find a copy of Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” on any video store shelf. Frustrated, he imagined a […]