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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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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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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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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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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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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general nice to have market.
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I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
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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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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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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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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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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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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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