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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
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Wilmot Reed Hastings
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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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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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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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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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