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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

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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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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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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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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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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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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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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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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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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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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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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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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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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