Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of… — 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 Image
Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
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 Image
We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
