Good question, it’s obviously no secret that we had to let some (great) people go a few months ago. As someone who’s worked in this industry for a while and knows people at a lot of different companies, I’m not sure I know anyone whose company hasn’t been navigating something similar this year. After a period of (wild?) growth, it’s been a challenging period for the industry. But with that obvious caveat, the state of Plex is great. :]
There hasn’t been a shift in priorities, just a focusing. Personal media and free ad-supported content are both still major parts of our strategy. That reference to “four areas” had to do with how we structure our teams internally.
- Personal media
- Streaming content, like ad-supported movies & shows and live TV channels
- What I’ll broadly call Discover, which is all about everything apart from the actual media consumption, like trending trailers, more ways to watch things, your watchlist, etc.
- Platform, a lot of the internal things that the other teams build on top of
That last one isn’t something I’d call a “product area”, but it’s important to how we work. The first three are all major parts of our strategy and will continue to release new features we’re excited about.
