Netflix Subs Beat Forecasts and Hastings Steps Down As Co-CEO, Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs. 1/20/23
Squawk on the Street
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Market moving insight and analysis join Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintanilla, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street. |
| 0:08.6 | Good Friday morning, welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintania with Jim Kramer and David Faber post nine of the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 0:14.7 | Futures somewhat steady on this Friday as the market absorbs the Netflix quarter, these layoffs at Alphabet, and the final blast of FedSpeak |
| 0:21.7 | before the blackout window begins. Big options expiration today, by the way. Our roadmap begins |
| 0:26.5 | with Netflix smashing subs growth, a leadership shift, and the stock is surging. |
| 0:31.7 | Plus tech layoffs, while they are spreading, Alphabet is going to be axing 12,000 employees, |
| 0:37.4 | wayfair cutting about 10% of its |
| 0:39.4 | workforce. And Elon Musk called to testify, expected to take the stand as soon as today in that |
| 0:46.7 | trial over that 2018 fund secured. Let's begin with Netflix beating expectations by adding almost 7.7 million subs in Q4. |
| 0:58.0 | Company also announcing some changes in the C-suite. |
| 1:00.7 | Reed Hastings has stepped down as co-CEO, staying on as executive chair. |
| 1:05.3 | C-O Greg Peters has been elevated to co-CEO, serving in that role alongside Ted Sarandos. |
| 1:10.5 | Here's what Hastings had to say about those moves on the earnings call last night. |
| 1:16.9 | I couldn't be happier to complete our succession process. |
| 1:21.3 | It really started about 10 years ago with the board, trying to think through how could this |
| 1:27.1 | work. |
| 1:29.5 | They both have such amazing talents and gifts. And to find a platform where they've been able to contribute is fantastic. |
| 1:38.0 | As he said, after 21 years, they've had a good start, Jim. What a clinic they put on last night. |
| 1:43.1 | It was truly joyful. It was definitely |
| 1:45.5 | Super Bowl worthy, and I think the one of the things that really amazed me was that they were |
| 1:49.1 | going to do a session for 10 years. I mean, David, they know how to do a succession. They are |
| 1:55.1 | successful successions. Yeah, no, and it's not unimportant, something we do talk about, but certainly |
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