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Netflix Says It’s Business as Usual. Is That Good Enough?



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While being honored at the Banff Film Festival in Canada in early June, Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s head of global television, surprised some with what she didn’t say. Despite the recent turmoil at the streaming giant — including a loss of subscribers, hundreds of job cuts and a precipitous stock drop — she said that Netflix was charging ahead, with no significant plans to change its programming efforts.“For me, looking at it, the business works,” Ms. Bajaria said from the stage. “We are not doing some radical shift in our business. We’re not merging. We’re not having a big transitional phase.”Two weeks later, after Netflix had laid off another 300 people, Reed Hastings, the company’s co-chief exe …

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