He was into Seth Material, which was some new age channeled transmissions stuff and it was a big part of the development of the Dark Crystal
They say, for paying $x million, we expect to see Y amount of customer engagement (based on how previous shows have performed), which is measured by feeding those billion metrics into a formula slash SQL query slash Tableau dashboard. And if it’s not meeting those expectations, the show doesn’t get reupped.
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Here’s a Netflix fact that’ll cook your noodle: They are technically speaking not profitable. Since 2011 they’ve had a negative cash flow, meaning the money they put in to their business is greater than the money they’ve been getting out of it. They borrow a lot of money each year and there’s a yearly crop of articles wondering how much longer they can stay in business this way.
But maybe it doesn’t really matter if they’re profitable so long as the actual value of their business is consumer data and such. Maybe the only thing with any real value anymore is information and anyone who can gather and package mass amounts of information can do well for themselves regardless of how well they perform in a more traditional money market.
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Nah, the only metric that matters is how much you can grow revenue from year-to-year because that determines either how much your stock is worth or how much your valuation is worth pre-offering.
Okay, that’s a lie, the other metric that really matters in tech is Free Cash Flow, i.e. the amount of money that you have in-hand that you don’t have to pay back for a bit, allowing you to use it because you’ve probably got enough money on-hand to make up the difference if things somehow go sideways.
For example, here’s Amazon, circa Q1 2018:
That’s what Netflix and Uber and every other tech company that doesn’t make a profit is aiming for.
(The key here is how steep that revenue curve is – that enables you to have ridiculous amounts of money to play around with.)
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A lot of it is vague top-line stuff, like “this quarter we shifted content spend to 30-70 original-licenced and we saw that growth/revenue was in line with previous performance”, and that generally original content is a better long-term bet than licences—it’s capex!
I learned all this stuff so we knew which bits of the earnings calls were appropriate to rag on in previous companies
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These people are basically using the Force to run billion-dollar businesses
Oooh I bet it’s that scorpion boss demo they showed off earlier this year.
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What is exa-arcadia?
Japanese arcade hardware.
Maybe this means it’ll be playable at like…Round One locations in the US? I’m not sure if those use exa
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classic platformer remasters, that’s what will save arcades
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Ah jeez I’ll probably never get to play it then. Too bad. That’s a nice looking remaster.
As a child, it made me mad to see Super Mario World in arcade form, charging quarters.
nowdays this game would be imteractive fiction instead of a Weird Platformer
There was an IF Akira title for the Famicom!, and it’s even got a fan translation
perhaps there is room for both
Exa-Arcadia has had tons of problems. Underpowered hardware that has been eternally delayed. Bad contracts for the game developers.
There is also like 100 arcades left in the world.
Can’t find their stats online but the base unit with no cabinet is 4000 dollars. And it uses cartridges that cost 2000 a piece.
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