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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 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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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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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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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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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. - 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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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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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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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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I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun. - 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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In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success. - 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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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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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right. - 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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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. - 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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