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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
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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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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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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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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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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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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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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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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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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 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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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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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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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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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'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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