Kudos to Netflix for informing its tantrum-prone employees that they’d better learn to coexist with people who hold various points of view: “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.” In other words: Stuff it, crybabies who didn’t like Dave Chappelle’s The Closer.
Still, the really stunning announcement from Netflix in its new internal memo on corporate culture — the first to be posted in five years by the famously freewheeling disrupter — was this less-noticed injunction: “You spend our members’ money wisely.” Now that’s a new approach. Netflix also eliminated a section in the memo that used to say, “There are virtually no spending controls and few contract signing controls.” I have a hunch most large companies managed to figure this out before 2022, but as of this week, Netflix understands that controlling spending is smart. Pursuant to the new thinking, Netflix canceled Space Force after just two brief seasons.
Comments