Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by paxys on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:30AM
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Disney (the company) has 20x the number of employees as Netflix, and just 2x the market cap (in fact they were briefly worth the same last year), ~2x the revenue and 2/5 the net income. So Netflix is clearly doing something right.
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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by ziddoap on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:35AM
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>Disney (the company) has 20x the number of employees
Is that all of Disney or just Disney+?
It doesn't seem like that would be a useful statistic if that includes completely unrelated positions (e.g. does that 20x statistic include Disney employees working at Disney Land/World serving up hotdogs? Because they probably don't contribute much to the streaming service)
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by briffle on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:10AM
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Netflix also has production studios they now own making content.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by thfuran on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:58AM
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Content like hotdogs at an amusement park?
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by scrlk on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:33AM
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Disney Streaming had 850 employees as of 2017 [0] (can't find any newer figures); LinkedIn is suggesting 1k-5k.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by eru on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:37AM
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Perhaps they are just running different business models?
Walmart's market cap per employee is probably much, much lower than Disney or Netflix, too. That doesn't mean Walmart is doing anything wrong.