'A new kind of safe drug?' Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on what could replace the streaming giant
about 5 years in The guardian
Even a global pandemic could not stop Netflix in its quest to dominate our free time. Here, its co-founder discusses the need to innovate, its unusual business model – and its ruthless ‘keeper test’
On the day the 2020 Emmy nominations were released, Reed Hastings, the co-CEO of Netflix, had been in back-to-back meetings all morning, so he had not heard the good news by the time we spoke.
The world’s biggest video-streaming service, the home of everything from Stranger Things to The Crown, had managed to achieve something that no other network had done before: an unprecedented 160 nominations. The traditional king of high-class TV, HBO, came in second, with 107. Continue reading...
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