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Evans: Gaming stream viewership is larger than Netflix, HBO, or ESPN
“Watching people play games is now bigger than Netflix, or bigger than HBO, or bigger than ESPN.”
Andreessen: 'The Social Dilemma' lied about historical bicycle opposition
“There's this Netflix documentary called The Social Dilemma that's kind of, you know, condemns, you know, kind of social media as this kind of unique threat to civilization. And one of the things that one of the guys in that movie says is he's like, you know, s…”
Whitman: Quibi must commission all content because no short-form libraries exist
“There is no library to buy for this very high quality short form content. So unlike Netflix or Hulu or other that bought a library, there is no library to buy. So we have to commission that content.”
Stromberg: VR distribution will shift from download stores to subscription models
“Initially where you know when you have sites like Steam and you know, Oculus site and all these will be the first places that you're able to sort of download, but I can see very clearly a time when you will have this sort of Netflix like library to choose from…”
Evans: Netflix and Amazon match top US media content budgets
“Netflix and Amazon are now top tier content producers. They have equivalent budgets to the other major US entertainment companies.”
Sandbox VR partnered with Netflix for a Squid Game VR experience
“And that is why we decided to partner with Netflix on Squid Game.”
Mariotti: Enterprise transition to microservices will take ten years
“At an enterprise level, you know, 99.9, they're still monolithic, so it's more a 10 years transition that we'll see, and what Netflix did, it will happen to Coca-Cola, to McDonald's, so there's a lot of value to be unlocked and to help companies doing this tra…”
Sarandos: Netflix greenlights roughly 1% of pitches across its content slate
“This year we'll have 30 original series, 80 original films, 35 original kids series, 19 local language original series being produced all over the world 65 documentary projects, so I would say it's about one in a hundred.”
Evans: Netflix holds the fourth largest content production budget in the US
“Netflix itself has the fourth largest production budget in the USA.”
Arbesman: Netflix uses Chaos Monkey to randomly disable live production subsystems
“Netflix, they have this chaos monkey suite of tools where the tool will periodically take subsystems out of commission and see how the overall system responds live. It'll just kind of knock out portions of Netflix and see how it responds. And the idea is to lo…”
Hindman: Twitter, Airbnb, Netflix, and PayPal run on Mesos
“The open source components that, that make up a large part of the DCOS are used by a large number of companies today. Some of the biggest users out there are companies like Twitter Airbnb, HubSpot, eBay, and PayPal are using it for running things. Netflix is u…”