I remember when working for Netflix there were three moments where I realized I joined a different company than I thought. I realized they combined engineer’s m

I remember when working for Netflix there were three moments where I realized I joined a different company than I thought. I realized they combined engineer’s misunderstanding of their business and combined it high salaries provided by similarly confused investors to dominate a single vertical with no appetite to ever compete with the actual tech companies. 1) Seeing the Netflix prototype set top box and learning it was spun out into Roku 2) Hearing leadership repeat the mantra “become HBO before HBO becomes us” 3) Management’s about-face during the Flixter debacle turned into an overreaction against pivoting or building additional verticals outside entertainment