A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Responds to Whitney Tilson: Cover Your Short Position. Now. A great investor and a wonderful human being, Whitney Tilson recently posted an article about why he is short Netflix (NFLX). Whitney, who is a major co-donor with me to charter public schools like KIPP, writes that he has lost money betting against Netflix, and that he is still short Netflix in a big way. At Netflix we mostly focus on building our business and letting the numbers do the talking. But Whitney is such a big-hearted donor to causes that I care about that I am writing this open letter for him to try to get him to cover his short now. My desire is to increase his odds of making money next year so he can donate even more to the charter public schools that we both think are important to our country’s future.
For the record, I think short sellers are a positive force in capitalism, and I acknowledge that CEOs are generally biased in their bullishness on their respective firms. Whitney’s core short thesis in his article “Why We’re Short Netflix” is: Follow Reed Hastings. IAMAN engineer that makes sure the power grid in the U.S. stays up and running AMA : IAmA. Portugal's drug policy pays off; US eyes lessons. RobotRollCall comments on So if the Universe is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into? The Big (Military) Taboo. Dark Dungeons.
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I've probably written and rewritten this opening paragraph about Glenn Beck and his morning zoo sycophantic sidekick Pat Gray four or five times with various sequences of compound obscenities and ad hominem insults. But I'm opting for more restraint at this point, even though neither of these jackals deserves it. Especially so, considering their latest hand-in-hand plunge into all new depths of awfulness. By now, you've probably heard the news about Gene Cranick and his family, and how the South Fulton, Tennessee fire department stood by and allowed the Cranick house to burn to the ground, destroying everything and killing the family's dogs and cats.
All because the Cranicks failed to pay a $75 fee. While a raging brush fire neared his home, Cranick begged the fire chief to stop the fire before it engulfed his house. He even offered to immediately pay the $75 fee, but the chief refused and the house burned to the ground. Here's what happened. And the takeaway quote from Beck: Okay, fine.