Money to burn; why Wall Street loves NFLX

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Technology, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Netflix owes around $15 billion, yet it continues to spend money billions each year to fund its original programming. Is this a brilliant move to set it apart from the competition or a house of cards ready to collapse? Hosts: Peter Kafka & Rani Molla This podcast is a production of Recode by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network. This episode was produced by Zach Mack, Bridget Armstrong. Our editor is Charlie Herman. Gautam Srikishan engineered and scored this episode. Nishat Kurwa is the Executive Producer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A New York Presbyterian are data scientists and doctors are combining decades of medical
0:06.5	experience caring for diverse communities with the power of data science to one day get
0:12.0	ahead of a health issue before it becomes one.
0:15.2	Stay amazing, today and tomorrow, New York Presbyterian.
0:19.4	Back in 2014, we started hearing a lot of buzz around an exciting and mysterious
0:33.0	new Netflix project.
0:34.6	It sounded cool.
0:37.6	The show was going to be ambitious, it was going to be expensive and a big name director
0:43.7	was already attached.
0:45.3	Cynthia Littleton is a business editor of variety.
0:47.8	Three members all the hype.
0:49.2	There had been a lot of rumors about a big project blending music and drama set in the
0:55.7	birth of hip-hop culture in New York.
0:58.1	A couple years later, we finally got to see the get down.
1:05.8	It was made by Baz Lerman, the visionary director behind Moulin Rouge.
1:09.4	And true to his style, the show was bright and fantastical and full of dancing.
1:13.3	And just wait for you to see him dance girl.
1:15.8	He wins the dance off like every single eat.
1:18.7	It had incredible elements and those kinds of things take lots of rehearsals and lots of
1:24.3	additional bodies and creative disciplines that you don't have on a typical cop show
1:29.4	or lawyer show.
1:30.8	Its vision and scope seemed like a statement.
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