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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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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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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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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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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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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 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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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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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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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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I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
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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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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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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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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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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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