As companies grow and their technologies and customers rapidly evolve,

building a resilient culture that can reinvent the product and itself

is critical for enduring success.

This episode from September 2020 features Reed Hastings, the co-founder and CEO of

Netflix in conversation with Ben Horowitz, co-founder of A16C. They talk about how Reed built Netflix, his management philosophy, lessons learned, and the tactics

he used to instill a culture of innovation across the company as it expanded globally.

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disclosures. Hi and welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Doss and in this episode we feature Reed

Hastings, the CEO and co-founder of Netflix who talks about his new book just

out called No Rules Rules,

Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention,

with A16Z co-founder and fellow author Ben Horowitz,

who also wrote a best-selling book about culture last year.

You can find the conversation about that book between him and Sonal on the stories and code of

culture change episode.

But this conversation, which was recorded recently for the Commonwealth Club of California,

focuses on the underlying theme and question of what does it take to create an organization capable of reinventing itself.

Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD by mail rental service competing with Blockbuster,

it has completely reinvented itself twice.

First, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming platform,

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