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Reed Hastings

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The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

But if you do, this is a core part of entertainment.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And then because we clarified all those expectations, you know, a few people left.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

But for the most part, everyone understood that makes sense.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

That's the rules.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And we move forward together.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Yeah, I mean, there's certainly the U.S.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

federal government is leading this anti-DEI push.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

I don't know how much it's affected Netflix.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Again, you'd have to ask Greg and Ted about that.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

But I would say in general for us, we always focused on inclusion.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

We never called it DEI.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

For us is we want everyone who's a Netflix employee to be able to contribute at their highest ability because that's in our commercial interest.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Perhaps we can go as far out on a limb as some companies did, but our inclusion efforts have remained strong.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Again, we want people to feel comfortable so that they can contribute at their highest level.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Yeah, I mean, there's another way to say customer satisfaction there is revenue, right?

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

That's the top line.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And the operating income is the bottom line.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

So you want to be – I think Bezos is the one who said this best – to sort of be very firm about certain principles and then very flexible on the tactics.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And then this is a specific application of that, which is –

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Let's try to think through things that grow customer happiness and also grow operating income.