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
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School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.
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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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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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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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We believe that Amazon is going to enter this market in the near future. It could happen before the holidays.
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We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.
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We are seeing the beginning of things, ... Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.
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We tried not to get drunk on the future, but actually to predict it accurately.
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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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Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.
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Our record first-quarter performance provides additional evidence of the strength of our business model and our market, and reinforces our confidence that we can achieve our aggressive goals for subscriber and earnings growth. It has also led us to increase our near-term guidance for subscriber and revenue growth.
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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.