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HBO Max started out with decades of inexpensive, quality content via Warner. Netflix had to either buy or build content. Netflix did poach proven talent, but e
by smt88 5y ago
HBO Max started out with decades of inexpensive, quality content via Warner. Netflix had to either buy or build content.
Netflix did poach proven talent, but even then, it was people like Shonda Rimes and the guys who botched Game of Thrones.
- bombcar 5y agoNetflix failed to buy a studio; you can poach talent but poaching an entire structure is harder to do. Netflix has spent more on original content than Amazon did to buy MGM, though they apparently have spent less than Disney did on Fox.