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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: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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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 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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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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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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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content it's a pretty well-trodden path.
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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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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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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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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