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During my 25 years of Netflix, that was the dominant non-family thing in my life.
I think the big struggle we had in the early days was the contrast of loyalty and what that meant versus performance.
And we realized, OK, professional sports teams have a clear bargain of your sort of playing for your position each season.
And it is a performance culture.
But the team can be quite close and can be very supportive of each other.
And we came to think of loyalty as a stabilizer.
but that ultimately it was about performance.
And that helped us clarify our own values, that we were more valuing growth and achievement.
And then when you get that and everybody's working towards the company's success, it's a very powerful force.
Well, let's see, several things.
So I would say during my 25 years of Netflix, that was the dominant non-family thing in my life.
And that was like one big thing with tiny little stuff around the edge.
And now my life is more varied.
So I have a big chunk of focus on charter schools.
I'm on a half dozen nonprofits online.
Been working on charter schools in U.S.
education for two decades.
A big chunk on Powder Mountain, which is incredibly joyful.
And then smaller chunks on a bunch of other philanthropic projects.
That's right.