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In response to "Your schadenfreude headline for the day: Netflix Erases 12 Months Of Massive Growth, Opens At 52 Week Low -- (link)" by Mop (196 lbs)

reed hastings has gone from hero to zero about as fast as any ceo i've ever seen....nm

Posted by x (aka dmuck) Sep 20 '11, 10:54

he's generally been great at his job. i'm really not sure what happened.

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I heard on some MP show this week that he's always been very noncharismatic, which has hurt him some in the past, but is killing him now. -- nm - amanda jones Sep 20, 11:07 1
- yeah. he's never really had to much be the public face of netflix, and it's clear he really isn't good at it....nm - x Sep 20, 11:10
I wonder what the discussion was that made them believe a new company with its own queue was a good idea. - David, Archer fan Sep 20, 10:56 10
- i think it's almost entirely about licensing. evolver has it right.... - x Sep 20, 11:00 3
  - and i also think it all makes some sense as a business proposition. but the way they have handled it has been an utter botch job... - x Sep 20, 11:04 2
    - and ironically I'll be dropping my streaming this month because they don't offer enough stuff. yay qwuickster! or whatever the F it's called. -- nm - sycor Sep 20, 11:06 1
      - I actually should drop as well until after the holidays. -- nm - amanda jones Sep 20, 11:10
- *and* whose idea the name was. consistent branding would have been nice. or even checking the internet to see how the name was used. - amanda jones Sep 20, 10:58 1
  - Whenever I hear Qwikster I think this: -- (link) - MDH Sep 20, 11:00 [Image]
- They're spinning it off to sell it. They don't want the business any more. They're about as dim witted as HP. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Sep 20, 10:57 2
  - As I said yesterday, they've definitely tied off the dvd by mail business in anticipation of its eventual closure. - David, Archer fan Sep 20, 10:59 1
    - Didn't he say (or a fomer Netflix head) about 3 years ago that physical discs had 5 years of viability left? -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 11:06
- Not even a Netflix Classic or something..what the hell. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 20, 10:56

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