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>>meetpa+(OP)
“The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” - Ted Sarandos in 2013

Seems Netflix won that race.

>>I-M-S+z4
Thing is that Netflix didn't really succeed at that goal. HBO was and still is the gold standard for premium cable content. Netflix instead decided to go for the bottom 70% of the market, and the quality of their shows reflects that.

In fact the very reason for this purchase is that they desperately need help on the creative side.

Netflix is what it is today because all the studios trying to compete with their tech was an even bigger disaster than Netflix competing on content.