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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

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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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In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
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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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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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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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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 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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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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Be big, fast and flexible.
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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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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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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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