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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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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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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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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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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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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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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