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 Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share
Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen. — Reed Hastings Copy Share
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This… — Reed Hastings Copy Share
Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and… — Reed Hastings Copy Share
So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For… — Reed Hastings Copy Share
We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second. — Reed Hastings Copy Share
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. — Reed Hastings Copy Share
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. — Reed Hastings Copy Share
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. — Reed Hastings Copy Share
Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do… — Reed Hastings Copy Share
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… — Reed Hastings Copy Share
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… — Reed Hastings Copy Share
