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Reed Hastings Biography

Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the co-founder, Chairman 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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Don't be afraid to change the model.

Life, Change, Life Changing, Afraid, Model

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

Bunch, Hbo, Shows, Watch, Watches

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

Hate, I Hate, Photo, Stuff

Be big, fast and flexible.

Big, Bigs, Fast, Flexible, Life Lesson

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.

Technology, Years, Long, Progress, Fact

Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.

Experience, Interactivity, Same, Thing

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.

Apples, Like, Mistake, Orange, Oranges, People

Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent. " But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.

Basically, Favourite, Horse, Oil, Technological, Years

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

Years, Years Ago, Tvs, Like, Broadcast

In the U. S. , HBO is a very aggressive service.

Aggressive, Hbo, Service

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.

Clear, Difficult, Dvds, Make, Netflix, Two

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.

Cable, Content, Looks, Path, Wells, Wherever

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.

Half, Organization, Platform, School, Technology

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

People, Trying, Outcomes, Appropriate, Context, Setting

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.

2005, Board, Boards, Littles, Stupid, Thought

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

Bezos, Jobs, Leader, Like, Long, Term

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte. . . ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Secret, Smile, Starbucks, Taste

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.

Battle, Dvd, Dvds, Evolving, Ferocious, Years

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

Fun, Hard, Worked

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?'

640K, Gates, Memories, Memory, Smart, Thinking

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