Elizabeth Stone

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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

So I was given a task to build some new feature for the Netflix member experience.

Let me take one beat and think about what is the bigger consumer problem we're trying to solve here?

What's the type of content that this feature is going to be able to support?

Do I think that the way I was planning to build this is gonna make sense in a way that scales across multiple content types?

Or it could be something that's a capability that then is contributed to a platform set of offerings from multiple areas.

Is the consumer problem that I'm solving with this feature going to be,

one of the most important consumer problems that Netflix is going to need to solve as we have an expanding world of entertainment and we want to make it more personalized and immersive.

Those are all questions that like you don't have to boil the whole ocean.

You don't have to solve for Netflix's overall strategy and who are we relative to competition.

But you take the thing you're responsible for and you just do one zoom out of the problem you're solving and question that.

I wouldn't spend too long in the questioning state because then you're stuck.

Then you're not making forward progress.

But I think that helps people to think in terms of systems and question that are we solving the right problem in the right way that matters for the end consumer.

I've got advice over years that is similar to that, which is, are there ways that I can do my job that helps my manager do their job?

And so if I thought about all the things I'm directly responsible for, but I thought about it from the perspective of my manager, so not just product and tech, but

finance and content and other parts of the business, I would naturally zoom out and think about how all these component pieces need to come together and how the whole could be greater than the sum of the parts.

I think that's useful thinking.

And for engineers to think about how do I leave a better version of these systems?

How do I think about the thing that's going to be high quality and scale for others?

There's both a how do I help my manager and there's how do I help my colleagues, which is a core part of some of our engineering principles of

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