Elizabeth Stone

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598 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

Any time a new technology comes along, you go through a storming phase before you go through the forming phase of things.

We are in the middle of that right now.

I don't think that means we should put AI back into the box and say, let's not use it.

I still see a craft excellence that's really important that I don't think is going away anytime soon.

I still find great engineering to be scarce, great data science to be scarce, great creativity to be scarce.

Netflix's culture has always been excellence as an operating system.

It's a resistance to do the thing that a lot of bigger companies would do and to feel comfortable in that discomfort very often.

Talent density is the non-negotiable, being very comfortable with risk-taking.

In cases where things are not going well, not assume that process is going to fix it.

We need more systems thinkers, people who can look across all the business domains and abstract that to here's the building blocks we're going to need.

Small trick.

Each problem you're trying to solve, step out one click to the what am I assuming is true about the broader space.

Thank you.

I'm honored to be here once and now twice.

Wow.

I'm pleasantly surprised and also mildly competitive of how do I get to the first spot.

But I'll set that aside for now.

Brian's amazing.

So I'll let that one go.

I hear it within Netflix, for sure.

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