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The Best Managers Figure Out How To Get Great Outcomes By Setting The Appropriate Context, Rather Than By Trying To Control Their People.

I Got The Idea For Netflix After My Company Was Acquired. I Had A Big Late Fee For Apollo 13. It Was Six Weeks Late And I Owed The Video Store $40. I Had Misplaced The Cassette. It Was All My Fault.

At Netflix, We Think You Have To Build A Sense Of Responsibility Where People Care About The Enterprise. Hard Work, Like Long Hours At The Office, Doesn't Matter As Much To Us. We Care About Great Work.

If You Look At Cable Networks, They Almost Always Start Licensing Content Wherever They Can, So They Can Build A Subscriber Base. But Then They Start Doing Their Own Content; It's A Pretty Well-trodden Path.