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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 65
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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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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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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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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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general nice to have market.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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