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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.
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I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?
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When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the total global transformation of a market. To achieve that, you need low prices and an attractive offering. It's about trying to make a positive impact on a big scale.
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About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
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When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'
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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
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