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I never said it wasn't a balancing act (in fact I explicitly noted they should care about money) but the content team is exactly the team that should be fightin
by adjkant 7y ago
I never said it wasn't a balancing act (in fact I explicitly noted they should care about money) but the content team is exactly the team that should be fighting tooth and nail internally against those constraints. That quote makes it sound like they have rolled over, and their content decisions of the past 3 years tell a similar story.
- bobthepanda 7y agoWhat VPs at any company stray from the unified front when doing PR? The lack of an external signal doesn't mean that everything is fine inside.
- adjkant 7y agoA fair point, but the actions of the past few years align with that PR statement as well. There are also completely ways for the content team to say better things that would fit that unified front. Or perhaps that would worry investors that the company isn't singularly focused on them, which is 100% a part of this issue as well. The problem is that the company caved to that pressure from Wall Street. The best companies, with true vision, balance their philosophy with the interests of investors and are okay if not everyone is behind their short term moves. The statement IMO either has its original meaning in my first post, or it means Netflix overvalues its short term stock outlook, and that is affecting content. No matter how you slice it, content at Netflix will continue to suffer so long as that holds true / Netflix continues to make similar statements.
- segmondy 7y agoContent is hard, a good story could be poorly executed and turned into a not so great show. It could be many things that were not obvious until the show is cut. What can the content team do then? Dump it and lose out on all the money spent or release it and learn from it? I believe they are doing the latter