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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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Reed Hastings
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
NZ
Wilmot Reed Hastings
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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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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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Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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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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I watch mostly independent films.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
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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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When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'
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