All of this seems like deliberate destruction of America from the inside out by an ayn-rand worshipping, billionaire afrikaaner cabal (David Sacks, Elon Musk, roelof botha etc). Thoughtless and mindless cuts
It’s all intentional. Trump is just a useful moron for Vought. Remember Trump is very easy to manipulate. The right wing Christian nationalists played him like a fiddle and are getting what they wanted out of it. Kind of wild that one guy has so much influence, especially since he’s completely out of the limelight. Reminds me of Robert Moses and the destruction of Urban America in the 1950s.
> But the real indicator of how much Sunday’s screw-up ends up hurting Netflix will be the success or failure of its next live program—and the next one, and the one after that, and so on. There’s no longer any room for error. Because, like the newly minted spouses of Love Is Blind, a streaming service can never stop working to justify its subscribers’ love. Now, Netflix has a lot of broken trust to rebuild.
To be honest, it's really hard to understand what Fleak does. For a minute, I thought it's a low-code way of deploying microservices/API endpoints. Maybe one end to end use case would help
Describing engineers as "fat and happy" is really derogatory. Their spend on tech employees is a tiny fraction of total content spend. Also, an even tinier fraction of what they spend on services like AWS. If they want to cut costs, there's a ton more low hanging fruit than letting people go. In fact, revenue per employee is the highest compared to other FAANG
If you look at the complaints about Netflix, most of them relate to content, not tech. This suggests that they've under-invested in content, and over-invested in tech.
Disagree, total content spend the last 4 years has been ~18bn/year compared to ~500m/yr on all employee R&D. That's shows there's a content quality problem not a content underinvestment.
According to their latest annual statement (2022), they spent 2.7 billion USD on "Technology & Development". Where are you getting the 500 million figure?
I think the tech side of Netflix is great, they do a great job. But it’s simply not what makes money for Netflix anymore and they are extra-ordinarily well paid.
Is this the right way to expose that hypocrisy though? If his goal was to truly bring society together and eradicate hate, I'm sure someone as smart as Adams could expose it in a more amicable and less polarizing way.
How quickly the tide turns in our industry..from massages at your desk to sitting on each other's laps. Hey they could perhaps still continue the massage to each other though.
