Fireside Chat: Culture Is the Product — Leading Teams That Scale and Last with Bruce Wang (Director, Games Platform Engineering @ Netflix)

​What makes some teams ship magic and others ship chaos—even when both have talent?

​Join Stanford Founders for an intimate fireside chat with Bruce Wang, Director of Engineering at Netflix and a veteran founder, platform leader, and early-stage advisor. Bruce has led engineering orgs across startups and scaleups, from co-founding Twistage to helping shape the engineering culture behind Netflix Games. In this session, we’ll dive deep into the invisible force that drives lasting outcomes: culture.

​Whether you’re 2 people or 200, how you build your team matters more than what you build. Together, we’ll unpack:

• ​Why culture is your real product, especially in the early days

• ​The paradoxes of scaling a high-trust team

• ​Why every core value creates tension—and how to resolve it

• ​What Netflix got right (and wrong) about culture

• ​Tactical ways founders can write, live, and evolve their culture

​This isn’t theory. It’s grounded, hard-won lessons from someone who’s scaled orgs, supported dozens of AI and SaaS startups, and learned how to keep teams caring, shipping, and growing—even as the mission changes.

​📍 Open to founders, builders, and anyone shaping early-stage teams.