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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. -- Reed Hastings
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How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world? -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater. -- Reed Hastings
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School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly. -- Reed Hastings
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Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago. -- Reed Hastings
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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?' -- Reed Hastings
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Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now. -- Reed Hastings
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In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly. -- Reed Hastings
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In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming. -- Reed Hastings
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So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office. -- Reed Hastings
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Don't be afraid to change the model. -- Reed Hastings
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Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business. -- Reed Hastings
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What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years. -- Reed Hastings
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Don't get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high. -- Reed Hastings
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There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions. -- Reed Hastings
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows. -- Reed Hastings
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Taking smart risks can be very gratifying. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. -- Reed Hastings
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen. -- Reed Hastings
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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO. -- Reed Hastings
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Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads. -- Reed Hastings
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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. -- Reed Hastings
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Be big, fast and flexible. -- Reed Hastings
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But it may be one of our best markets in the long term because when the Japanese society embraces a brand it is a very deep connection, so we're willing to make that investment knowing that it's not the quick route to success that might be in other countries. -- Reed Hastings
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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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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. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. -- Reed Hastings
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Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously. -- Reed Hastings
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I hate the photo shoots. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun. -- Reed Hastings
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We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second. -- Reed Hastings
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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis. -- Reed Hastings
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Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term. -- Reed Hastings
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In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service. -- Reed Hastings
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff. -- Reed Hastings
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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. -- Reed Hastings
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. -- Reed Hastings
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I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005. -- Reed Hastings