Netflix executive admits growing pains with Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson live stream: ‘We learn from those things’ [Video]

Netflix Execs Talk Growing Pains With Live Sports Streaming

A press event was recently held to promote WWE Raw’s upcoming debut on the Netflix platform. Netflix Chief Content Officer, Bela Bajaria, discussed learning experiences following the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson event (via Deadline).

“Whenever we do live events, we want it to go smoothly for every single one of our members. That’s really important—also, to put it in perspective, it was 65 million concurrent streams, right? It was a very successful night. A lot of people [watched], the scale was very big, which is great. There’s a lot of interest in it,” she said.

“We expected a big number, for sure. It was a big number. But again, you don’t know, and you can’t learn these things until you do them so you take a big swing. Our teams and our engineers are amazing, moved super quickly, and stabilized it, and many of the members had it back up …