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Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Do they? I wouldn't be surprised if AWS even charges Amazon.com full retail for hosting. The point is the company has a lot of different business units that report up to the CEO, and business units generally act like mini companies.

The accounting of charging full retail to other business units is a lot cleaner than giving preferred rates and making it harder to understand the finances of what is going on with the different business units.

A CEO may be willing to operate a business unit at a loss for strategic reasons, but they have to understand that said business unit is costing the company money.