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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
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NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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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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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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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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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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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
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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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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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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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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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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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