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Esports gaming platform Skillz hooks users even more than Netflix and Facebook

Annie Pei

Competitive gaming platform Skillz is seeing gamer use that surpasses time spent on Facebook and Netflix. The company hosts about 2 million tournaments featuring online games of solitaire, mahjong and a number of sports-related mobile titles for amateur gamers who earn cash prizes. When Netflix NFLX CEO Reed Hastings acknowledged the streaming media giant's growing list of competitors in his latest annual shareholder letter, he didn't cite Disney or HBO as the biggest threats.

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