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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
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Wilmot Reed Hastings
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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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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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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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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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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 don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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