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by lotsofpulp 485 days ago
> Is netflix profitable from income gained, or from expenses "saved"

Profit = revenue minus expenses, so not sure what this could even mean. It is a function of both variables.

> As Zazlov has shown, you can "make money" if you simply slash a bunch of contracts, layoff employees, and writeoff stuff for tax instead of releasing products.

WBD has yet to show a profit since Zaslav got involved. He has personally lost a ton of wealth due to declining prices of the equity. But, of course, WBD is not a simple case of a media business not being able to sell media, it is a complicated due to the extreme debt it has, which doesn’t say anything about streaming businesses in general.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WBD/warner-bros-di...

> It's not profitable in a way that can work for a decade. It's like cutting off your arm and saying you "lost weight".

Back to Netflix, their financial trends show a very successful business. Just check their growth in revenue, profit, and profit margins, for 10+ years.