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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.
Reed Hastings
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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 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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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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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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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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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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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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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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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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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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Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?
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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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