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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Reed Hastings
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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
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NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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