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    Co-founder of Netflix, co-CEO 2020-2023, now chairman; built the subscription-first streaming model and defended it on Netflix earnings calls for a decade, covered by CNBC, Reuters and The Verge.

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    2020

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    1. Jan 21, 2020Missed it.
      “We want to be the safe respite where you can explore; you can get stimulated, have fun, enjoy, relax and have none of the controversy around exploiting users with advertising.”

      Missed. Hastings said tracking-heavy online advertising was something Netflix was "not interested in doing". In April 2022, after Netflix's first subscriber loss in a decade, he reversed on the earnings call: "Those who have followed Netflix know that I have been against the complexity of advertising and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription. But as much as I am a fan of that, I am a bigger fan of consumer choice." Netflix launched Basic with Ads in November 2022; advertising is now a core growth business for the company.