Netflix today fired a long time employee who leaked confidential financial information in response to the streamer’s launch of Dave Chappelle’s TheCloser on October 5
“We have let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,” a Netflix spokesperson said Friday.”We understand this employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is core to our company.”
The “commercially sensitive information” in question that led to today’s firing is that Netflix paid Chappelle $24.1 million for his sixth special for the streamer, up from the $23.6 million the Mark Twain Prize winner received for his 2019special. Appearing in an October 13 Bloomberg article, the leak also revealed that the streamer paid $3.9 million for Bo Burnham’s.
With an October 20 walkout by trans staffers planned over remarks Chappelle makes about their community and the LBGTQ+ community as well, internal anger at the streamer has been bubbling over into the public sphere also sincedropped. Intensifying the reaction, Sarandos doubled down on his defense of superstar Chappelle and vowed the streamer would not pullas the National Black Justice Coalition’s executive director David Johns and others demanded.
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