How Netflix acquired 200M+ paying customers

As I have mentioned in the past Netflix has (amazingly to me) de-prioritized uptime in favor of speed and also become their own CDN as part of their speedy-experience prioritization.

Their recent deceleration in subscribers has made high profile news recently, especially as Netflix actually lost subscribers in North America for only the second time in it’s 24 year history, but it still has over 200 million paying subscribers. Check this great Twitter thread from Ryan Kaufman on how it got there:

BONUS: A feature that's relevant in our Zoom-dominated world (especially now some of us are returning to offices): It is a hilarious Chrome Extension featured on Product Hunt called Netflix Hangouts. It basically disguises Netflix in a fake four-person conference call. Such a terrible idea? yeah, but nah, but yeah.