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Netflix is a company whose unsentimental culture of firing underperforming employees has "unsettle[d] the ranks," according to the Wall Street Journal's lengthy, detailed piece published Thursday.But as in-depth as it was, the Journal's 4,500-word story lacked some context. Namely: How happy are Netflix employees in general compared with other companies? And, more to the point, is its approach to culling the staff -- which Netflix has fully disclosed for years -- a problem for the business?Yes, Netflix's practice of quickly...
Netflix
Reed
Hastings
Co-Founder / CEO
A software engineer, Hastings was already envisioning streaming entertainment over the Internet when he co-founded Netflix in 1997 as a DVD purveyor. Ten years later, he launched a subscription-video service that now dominates the field, serving more than 130 million customers in 190-plus countries. Subscribers binge-watch entire TV seasons, and the company mines the resulting audience data. He continually pushed Netflix to disrupt industry business models, creating a distribution powerhouse that spends billions on licensed TV shows and movies and original content, with consistent spoils come awards season. The CEO, who also serves on Facebook’s board, founded debugging-tool vendor Pure Software, pocketing $750 million from the com-panys sale and using the proceeds to seed Netflix.
