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Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

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Post by wombatpm »

breput wrote: post #10
samtc wrote: post #5

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Is XBRL any good? I see more filings on EDGAR/SEDAR using that.

It isn't a choice for any registrant that is filing to the SEC. Even the smallest filers will have to file most reports using XBRL after June. The application of XBRL doesn't really affect the design of the reports. It ebbs and flows - it feels like more designed filings are coming back with better tools that allow more designed reports.

The is an entire industry that does financial printing; 10k, quarterly reports, prospectuses etc. they handle the filing with SEC/Edgar. If there is a descrepency it arises there. Any one remember when RRDonnelley submitted Googles data a couple hours early during trading and they had to halt trading in the stock?

Re: Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

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Post by yyublhjashlyy »

meibo wrote: post #73
yyublhjashlyy wrote: post #68

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Doesn't revealing personal information like that on your website allow doxxing?

It's a legal requirement in some EU countries to have a valid imprint with address and owner information. People getting mail from lawyers, demanding an imprint, is not unheard of.

Who says this is a EU website though?

Re: Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

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Post by Traster »

LiberatedLlama wrote: post #33
ekianjo wrote: post #29

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> It never came back. Just like any kind of fun left in the company?

If you want fun on the company's dime, convince your boss to take your team to a go-kart track. That would provide a much better fun:money ratio.

There's a difference between having fun at work, and having fun allocated by work. What most companies have is enforced fun - once or twice a year you'll go to an offsite location with free booze and try some ridiculous forced activity, and the desperate hope from corporate that that can take the place of actually enjoying your job. What most companies want is an atmosphere where people have fun and are passionate actually doing their job. That's what you see in these early annual reports from Netflix - people enjoying what they do. Now, in reality in business sometimes the imperatives change, but that doesn't make those two things the same.

Re: Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

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Post by hbcondo714 »

nixgeek wrote: post #80
hbcondo714 wrote: post #78

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I will look into this but there is indeed a privacy policy link on all pages in the footer: https://last10k.com/privacy

Not a fan of this: 11. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such,…

I'm not a fan of this either but at the time of publishing in 2018, that was standard boilerplate text. We will certainly revisit, thank you for pointing this out.

Re: Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

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Post by LiberatedLlama »

Traster wrote: post #83
LiberatedLlama wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want fun on the company's dime, convince your boss to take your team to a go-kart track. That would provide a much better fun:money ratio.

There's a difference between having fun at work, and having fun allocated by work. What most companies have is enforced fun - once or twice a year you'll go to an offsite location with free booze and try some ridiculous forced activity, and the desperate hope from corporate that that can take the place of actually enjoying your job. What most companies want is an atmosphere where people have fun and are passionate ac…

How many people earnestly find fancy reports fun, and how many are just smiling and playing along to avoid being a wet noodle? In the case of Netflix, it was apparently one guy's passion project. Great for him, but how many netflix workers really feel like they're having less fun now that he's not doing it?
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