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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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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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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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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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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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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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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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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 watch mostly independent films.
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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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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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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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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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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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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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