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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
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Wilmot Reed Hastings
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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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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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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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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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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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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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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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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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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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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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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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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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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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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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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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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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