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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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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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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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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
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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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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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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
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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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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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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.
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Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.
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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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