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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.
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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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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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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
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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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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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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I watch mostly independent films.
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