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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
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NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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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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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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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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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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