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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 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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In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
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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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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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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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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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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 think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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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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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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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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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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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 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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
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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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