> Well, $1m may sound like a lot of money for Netflix to pay for something that wasn’t really used The title to me sounds analogous to 'I didn't use that piece

> Well, $1m may sound like a lot of money for Netflix to pay for something that wasn’t really used The title to me sounds analogous to 'I didn't use that piece of code I wrote on the weekend (but I probably learned something from it)'. If it were 10m, maybe relevant? But hardly to their bottom line. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/revenue https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/reven... ... Most companies that size (in evolving industries at least) should have 10-100 of those moonshot/R&D/marketing projects on the go. And I'm speaking to the choir here - exactly: surely most readers of thenextweb would be thinking the same here.