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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 65
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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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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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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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
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The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
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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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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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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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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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