Reed Hastings quotes

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun. (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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
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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.
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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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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 watch mostly independent films.
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows. (Reed Hastings)
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.
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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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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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Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
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In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.
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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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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)
What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
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School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.
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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.
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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.
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