DEI

“It's racism without the dog whistle.”

“Which is what they did with DEI for 15 years, is they found ways to be racist against others.”

“One of the things that we were so concerned about with that by an executive order on AI that we were sending in the first week is that it had 20 pages of language on DEI, and it was promoting this idea that AI models need to build in a DEI layer.”

“We've stripped out the DEI that the last administration had put in.”

“But I would say in general for us, we always focused on inclusion. We never called it DEI. For us is we want everyone who's a Netflix employee to be able to contribute at their highest ability. Cause that's in our commercial interest.”

“So this DEI to me just seems like a way for a lot of the same establishment people to keep their power and influence by offering these very optical advancements to people that may, you know, pay lip service to certain ideas, but when it comes down to it, they'…”

“I do think there are going to be some severe implications to a lot of these nonprofits.”

“I'd actually argue in the last 10 years, those narratives about just straight up Supply and demand and meritocracy got slightly hijacked by like DEI style. We're doing this for equity reasons or for access reasons, as opposed to straight economic reasons. That…”

“Obviously, I signed an executive order that banned DEI teaching in our universities.”

“I always thought it was a really bad idea to discriminate against people for their race or their gender or things like that. So I never was cool with DEI”

“So this was basically a form of DEI. It's like proto-DEI in the late seventies, and it was under Jimmy Carter's administration, and then eventually the courts pushed it and finalized it in the early eighties. So for 45 years, We haven't had merit-based tests i…”

“If companies have bias, then Meritocracy is completely consistent with a DEI strategy. Because what you, because if you're getting to your talent frontier and you have bias, you're removing that bias and you're saying, look, I'm just going to hire the best p…”

“The modern paradigm of DEI is toxic, woke ideology that is literally cancer for society.”

“When we went into our leadership meetings, we weren't talking about we weren't talking about that. We were talking about making infrastructure decisions that will matter in 2026 and rewriting our code to better position ourselves four or five years down the li…”

“Whether you want to call it wokeness, DEI, or intersectionality, it peaked in 2021 and 2022, kind of in the shadow of George Floyd and BLM protests and riots, and it has declined since then. I think there's no doubt about that.”

“I looked at it, and what I found Was almost none of it went to, not only was it not, famously at the time there was a joke of, is this infrastructure? Is this infrastructure? Is it like DEI? Is that infrastructure? Because they had tons of money earmarked for …”