Today's advice comes from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' interview at the D9 conference:
"We spend so much on culture and talent density, which is the fewest number of highly-talented people possible; not the largest number."
"Our dreams are not of a million engineers, our dreams are of a very small number of highly-talented people and we think that's one of the keys to staying very innovative and flexible, because with a small number of people you can run very informally, you don't need a lot of process."
Hastings says his biggest fear is for Netflix to become one of those companies that's going through a cycle where they experience a surge of innovation before coming to a sudden stop.
"It gets to nearly every company," he says.
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