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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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Bigs
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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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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 don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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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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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
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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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I watch mostly independent films.
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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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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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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
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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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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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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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