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I don't know about you, but if someone gave me $55m to make a TV show, I'd like to think I wouldn't blow $6m of that betting on the stock market. If even one of these allegations are true (and honestly I don't really see a reason to doubt them), this is a hilariously brazen misappropriation of funds.
Obviously we haven't seen the contract/deal he signed with Netflix, but I highly doubt it has language like "you can spend this money we're giving you on literally anything you want, including /r/WallStreetBets behavior".
The article does claim he lost that, but then claims he made more back.
It claims Netflix transferred him $11M, he tried played markets and lost then speculated crypto and more than doubled the money, then bought toys, and was still up:
Netflix wired Mr. Rinsch’s production company $11 million... Rinsch transferred $10.5 million of the $11 million to his personal brokerage account at Charles Schwab... lost $5.9 million in a matter of weeks [then later] transferred more than $4 million from his Schwab account to an account on the Kraken exchange and bought Dogecoin ... this one paid off: ... a balance of nearly $27 million...
At this point, he's up. Then the spending spree "tab came to $8.7 million", but that still leaves more than the $11M.
But his misappropriation came out ahead, instead of "blowing it".
So in the end, probably no lesson was learned.
Not saying that was a good idea or appropriate, but from the bank account point of view, the production balance ended up ahead.
And he clearly failed to deliver on his side of the deal.
Quibbling over this is unproductive and fussy.