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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
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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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Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.
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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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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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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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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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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
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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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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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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