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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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Wilmot Reed Hastings
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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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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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