Quotes by Reed Hastings

About Reed Hastings:

Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and CEO of Netflix and serves on the boards of Facebook and a number of non-profit organizations. A former member of the California State Board of Education, Hastings is an advocate for education reform through charter schools.
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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.

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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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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.

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I watch mostly independent films.

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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

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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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School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

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How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

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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 o...

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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.

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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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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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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

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I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

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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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I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

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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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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.

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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.

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In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

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Author Bio

  • NameReed Hastings
  • Descriptionentrepreneur and education philanthropist
  • AliasesWilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.
  • BornOctober 8, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America