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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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Adapts
Site
Smile
Taste
Secret
Individual
Latte
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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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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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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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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
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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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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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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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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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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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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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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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