To be fair, if you work for Netflix, entertainment is part of your business domain. One of the things the article highlights is the importance of knowing the business domain for your customers/clients.
That's true. But politics isn't really part of that, but came in handy (knowing when the President was making a big speech or another country was having an election or debate, for example).
That's a very naive view of politics :) -- if you think I'm just being a smartass: Reagan, Berlusconi, Trump, Schwarzenegger, Trudeau, Paquiao, Blair... the list of politicians who were entertainers before getting into politics is huge and getting longer (and more popular) by the day.
But politics isn't really part of that