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Netflix and mr. Hastings what is netflix and what do you do . Guest thats netflix is the worlds leading Entertainment Service and we reproduce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies and weve been around 20 years and have about 200 million families around the world who are our members. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles in 30 employees . Guest there is a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago and we deliver dvds in the United States competing with blockbuster and that was a full decade really that we were competing with video stores just in the u. S. And that is 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time youtube did. Host erin meyer how did you get involved in this book project . I study cultural differences and in workplace and im a School Professor of first came across the netflix culture when i reed many people of the netflix culture at the desk that reed put out on the internet and was quite shocking when
Reached an agreement with the studios to end the nearly five month strike. More than 11,000 hollywood writers have been picketing the studios since may 2nd without getting out. But now, after several days of intense negotiations, the wga emailing members sunday night saying they have reached a tentative agreement with the studios. According to multiple media reports, the offer made saturday suggested the studios had taken steps to meet some of the unions demands. Minimum staffing, residuals and Artificial Intelligence and data transparency. Though the exact details of the deal have not been released. Hollywood productions have been at a standstill for months, with both the wga and sagaftra, which represents 160,000 actors on strike. Both unions with similar demands. I think its really, truly coming from a real need, a desperation for things to change. And also pointing out some of the unfairness that is out there. The two strikes have been drawn out and costly with the ripple effects b
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