<story><title>75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney</title><url>https://musingsonmouse.substack.com/p/disneys-original-executive-team-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>Disney always knew how to produce content, so producing more content isn&amp;#x27;t unexpected. Since this is HN, I&amp;#x27;m more interested in how they&amp;#x27;ll scale their engineering systems.&lt;p&gt;On one end, you have Netflix practically leading the field with the best of the best engineers and practices.&lt;p&gt;Then you have Disney with makeshift off-the-shelf solutions assembled and aligned by multiple siloed armies of overseas contractors that rotate out every year as their contracts expire and some very expensive vendors.</text></item><item><author>randycupertino</author><text>&amp;gt; So it&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting to see how they attempt to pivot now that shareholders expect it to be the future of the company, whereas internally its literally a ghost town built by the lowest bid contractor.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s pretty clear from their last shareholder news release.  18,000 Star Wars expanded universe spin off series &amp;amp; movie trilogies, coming right up!  Not that I&amp;#x27;m really complaining :o)</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>How Disney and Netflix run their streaming services and their strategy for them couldn&amp;#x27;t be more different. Disney+ was always supposed to be a poison pill for the industry, everyone will try to compete against it and bleed out money perpetually.&lt;p&gt;Other way to think about it: to Netflix, streaming and content is the product. To Disney (especially with the promotion of Chapek over Mayer), it&amp;#x27;s just a marketing expense for Disneyland.&lt;p&gt;However, COVID really threw a wrench in that strategy. So it&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting to see how they attempt to pivot now that shareholders expect it to be the future of the company, whereas internally its literally a ghost town built by the lowest bid contractor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randycupertino</author><text>&amp;gt; On one end, you have Netflix practically leading the field with the best of the best engineers and practices.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really think users will care at all about this, though.  They just want high quality content.  The users and the their dollars will flock to the high quality content.&lt;p&gt;Netflix is feeling like H&amp;amp;M &amp;quot;fast fashion&amp;quot; where they churn out a bazillion low quality shows to throw everything against the wall and hope something sticks to keep people subscribing.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile the entire field is getting diluted by other platforms popping up and customers are getting fatigued enough to pay for premium content only (HBO&amp;#x2F;Disney&amp;#x2F;ESPN) and then pirate everything else, imo.</text></comment>
<story><title>75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney</title><url>https://musingsonmouse.substack.com/p/disneys-original-executive-team-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>Disney always knew how to produce content, so producing more content isn&amp;#x27;t unexpected. Since this is HN, I&amp;#x27;m more interested in how they&amp;#x27;ll scale their engineering systems.&lt;p&gt;On one end, you have Netflix practically leading the field with the best of the best engineers and practices.&lt;p&gt;Then you have Disney with makeshift off-the-shelf solutions assembled and aligned by multiple siloed armies of overseas contractors that rotate out every year as their contracts expire and some very expensive vendors.</text></item><item><author>randycupertino</author><text>&amp;gt; So it&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting to see how they attempt to pivot now that shareholders expect it to be the future of the company, whereas internally its literally a ghost town built by the lowest bid contractor.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s pretty clear from their last shareholder news release.  18,000 Star Wars expanded universe spin off series &amp;amp; movie trilogies, coming right up!  Not that I&amp;#x27;m really complaining :o)</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>How Disney and Netflix run their streaming services and their strategy for them couldn&amp;#x27;t be more different. Disney+ was always supposed to be a poison pill for the industry, everyone will try to compete against it and bleed out money perpetually.&lt;p&gt;Other way to think about it: to Netflix, streaming and content is the product. To Disney (especially with the promotion of Chapek over Mayer), it&amp;#x27;s just a marketing expense for Disneyland.&lt;p&gt;However, COVID really threw a wrench in that strategy. So it&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting to see how they attempt to pivot now that shareholders expect it to be the future of the company, whereas internally its literally a ghost town built by the lowest bid contractor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Money affords a certain amount of incompetence.. Disney has nearly $20 billion cash on the balance sheet.  Their product might never be as well designed and efficient as Netflix&amp;#x27;s (and I very much enjoy the Netflix technical blogs that lay out the complicated engineering to shave ms off of latency and compress things 1% better) but they don&amp;#x27;t really need to be if they have Pixar + Star Wars + Marvel + the Disney Vault and a streaming service that works well enough to launch those titles.</text></comment>