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Be big, fast and flexible.

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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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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
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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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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
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Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.
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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.
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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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