Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
Reed Hastings
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
Jr.
Businesses
Believe
Opera
Like
Novel
Movies
Pretty
Term
Shows
Long
More quotes by Reed Hastings
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?
Reed Hastings
Be big, fast and flexible.
Reed Hastings
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.
Reed Hastings
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.
Reed Hastings
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.
Reed Hastings
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.
Reed Hastings
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.
Reed Hastings
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.
Reed Hastings
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Reed Hastings
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
Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
Reed Hastings
Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
Reed Hastings
The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
Reed Hastings
I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
Reed Hastings
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
Reed Hastings
On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
Reed Hastings
Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
Reed Hastings
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.
Reed Hastings
I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
Reed Hastings
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
Reed Hastings