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Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, on The Story of Marginal Revolution

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What is revolutionary about on-demand streaming in general and Netflix in particular is that the service has commoditized time: on Netflix Sunday at 9pm is no different than Tuesday at 11am or Friday at 6pm; there is no prime time. Thus Netflix will release original series all at once, because why not? Best to maximize the number of minutes over... See more

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“Creators are so diverse in their needs that, to create a product that is scalable — and that doesn’t cost a ton of money trying to individualize itself for each individual creator — you end up creating a bad product,” Green said.

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The Future of Entertainment, Part 2: What’s the Matter With Broadway? · Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Theater investment strategy: balancing diversification, audience analysis, collaborative decision-making, and trusting personal taste for successful shows.

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But us giving it that platform is the reason why we do what we do. I think for me, to the point of what you're saying is it's not about low risk. It's about diversifying. And it's about sitting here and saying, we're going to do off-Broadway stuff at the same time as we do Broadway stuff, at the same time as we do musicals. I mean, musicals are

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings once announced his company was canceling several big-budget productions. He responded: Our hit ratio is way too high right now. I’m always pushing the content team. We have to take more risk. You have to try more crazy things, because we should have a higher cancel rate overall. These are not delusions or failures of

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