Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings,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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 October 1960
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
beginning seeing web
We are seeing the beginning of things, ... Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.
american-author
We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.
smart risk
Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
optimistic long entrepreneur
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
entrepreneur stupidity bird
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.
life-lesson bigs flexible
Be big, fast and flexible.
technology epic iron
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
fundamentals crisis distracted
Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
internet bases knows
I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
technology years long
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.
mistake apples orange
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.
independent watches film
I watch mostly independent films.
hbo watches bunch
I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
dvds two netflix
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.