Henry Ellenbogen
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 16 Dec
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I think I probably, because I used the Netflix example when they were fully formed and they were a discipline company.
I also think that putting discipline into a company
When your corporate culture has already formed, I don't want to use the word stasis, but at a certain scale, it's hard to change.
It's not good.
To run a company well, you have to be in the and business, not the or business.
You have to drive growth measured by market share in the short term.
You have to drive innovation or allocate capital well to position yourself better for the future.
And you have to basically drive profitability.
Partially profitability allows you to invest, but profitability actually forces you to drive efficiency and discipline through the organization and make sharp decisions on capital.
And what I always tell people about this is you should think about your CFO's function differently
Not as a policeman, but actually as someone who basically sells standards that forces you to make sharp decisions.
I think people realize this more today than they did a couple of years ago.
A lot of times when you prioritize and you focus on what really matters, agility comes in and you accomplish more.
And when you try to do too much, essentially investment has no cost.
A lot of times it's lazy and it's not sharp.
I think we want to have fun and we actually root for everyone.
The reason I say this is I'm a huge sports fan.
I love studying sports.
To me, there's two types of competitive greatness and they both work.
There's Michael Jordan, who was such a fierce competitor that essentially if you didn't rise to his level, he drove you out of there.
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