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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
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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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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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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I watch mostly independent films.
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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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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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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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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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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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
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