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

If you're really passionate about the applications of tech for creative outlets, for consumer products, for infrastructure, we have all of those problems and AI is at the center of them.

And it's good not to forget that that's true.

Even if Netflix isn't branded as an AI company, AI is a tool that we're very comfortable using to get these great entertainment and technology outcomes.

Yeah, it's a little prescient in understanding what makes talent incredible.

I've thought about all those aspects of the culture at Netflix as, this is going to sound a little bit nerdy, but excellence as an operating system.

So the goal of all those cultural elements wasn't,

the end bone themselves.

It wasn't, let's just make sure people have as much responsibility as possible or let's, you know, we don't like process.

So let's make sure that we don't have any of that.

It was instead a very strongly held opinion that you get to excellence by giving people a lot of agency and accountability, by pushing decisions as deep in the organization as possible, hiring great people who can be trusted to have good judgment and make good decisions.

And that ends up driving incredible outcomes plus a lot more motivation and sense of responsibility.

It means every person on the team can feel like I'm being given

a lot of keys and a lot of accountability for what happens here.

And I myself feel like when you know you're carrying that level of trust and accountability, you want to do your best work.

And so there's something that feels very intuitive about Netflix's culture has always been aiming at excellence.

And when you have great talent and you give them the ability to do their best work without micromanaging it or drowning it in process, you actually get much better outcomes.

And so I do think that the newer era companies

are picking up on something that is feeling very familiar to us.

And it's not something that comes easily.

So having culture is not a static thing.

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