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Netflix Earnings, Business or Franchise, Disney’s Deal

Stratechery (free posts) · Oct 21, 2026 · 6:00 AM ET

Netflix has a solid business, which is exactly the problem: the company increasingly seems like a business and not a franchise, at least in terms of growth.

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