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What Got You Here Won't Get You There
The recognition that past strengths can become future liabilities when the environment shifts. At Netflix, the local-team autonomy that drove past success must now be complemented by common infrastructure and systems thinking — because AI changes the requirements.
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Elizabeth Stone on why Netflix is investing more in central infrastructure. See consume/highlights/elizabeth-stone-netflix-systems-thinkers for full context. > “What got Netflix here doesn't get Netflix there. And we're going to have to have a stronger set of infrastructure to move quickly in this future.” (~14:39)
The skills and structures that made you successful in one era can become the bottlenecks in the next. The discipline is recognizing this before it's obvious — and having the courage to add new capabilities that feel at odds with what worked before.