Bilimoria: Streaming hours was the metric most correlated with Netflix retention
Zal Bilimoria · a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television · Jan 2, 2019 · at 18:23
Zal Bilimoria, former Netflix product manager and investor at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses how Netflix measured user engagement and prioritized product development.
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“There was two metrics at Netflix that every product manager was geared toward. It's subscriber retention and streaming hours. The most highly correlated variable to subscriber attention was streaming hours, right?”
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