alzee76 t1_j5rlotv wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:51 AM

Reply to comment by melody_elf in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712

> They focus entirely on short term, rapid growth

This is pure speculation on your part. I like how you treat it as a fact.

> Then they wonder why they can't keep users around.

Care to speculate some more, maybe on when and why I canceled my subscription? It'll be funny to see you completely whiff another one.

> Their stock has been on a downward slope for a long time now

No, it hasn't. It had a precipitous fall in the first half of 2022. It's been steadily trending upwards since then.

> so I think they should listen to their users.

You should probably learn what their actual motives are and what their stock is actually doing before forming such opinions.

melody_elf t1_j5rm159 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:53 AM

Of course this is a useless source in a Reddit argument but my friend is an engineer at Netflix and I'm mostly echoing her takes. Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating. I don't really care why you cancelled your netflix subscription.

alzee76 t1_j5rmeu4 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:56 AM

> Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating.

Unless she's routinely invited to board meetings or she's peeping at people's emails, she is. I was an engineer at Paypal and I can tell you exactly 0% about how top management came to their decisions. Same with every other Fortune 500 company I've worked for, and there are a handful.

melody_elf t1_j5rmrx6 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:59 AM

That's fair. I feel like I usually understand what's going on strategically at the companies I work for, but also all the businesses I've worked for have had less than 200 employees or so, so it's not that hard. I imagine the level of transparency is not high at a Fortune 500.