Reed Hastings
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But for the most part, everyone understood that makes sense.
That's the rules.
And we move forward together.
Yeah, I mean, there's certainly the U.S.
federal government is leading this anti-DEI push.
I don't know how much it's affected Netflix.
Again, you'd have to ask Greg and Ted about that.
But I would say in general for us, we always focused on inclusion.
We never called it DEI.
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.
Perhaps we can go as far out on a limb as some companies did, but our inclusion efforts have remained strong.
Again, we want people to feel comfortable so that they can contribute at their highest level.
Yeah, I mean, there's another way to say customer satisfaction there is revenue, right?
That's the top line.
And the operating income is the bottom line.
So you want to be โ I think Bezos is the one who said this best โ to sort of be very firm about certain principles and then very flexible on the tactics.
And then this is a specific application of that, which is โ
Let's try to think through things that grow customer happiness and also grow operating income.
And it's quite hard to do both of those.
It's easy to do one or the other at the cost of each other.