Reed Hastings

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few…

— Reed Hastings

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

— Reed Hastings

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.

— Reed Hastings

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet…

— Reed Hastings

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating…

— Reed Hastings

I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

— Reed Hastings

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box…

— Reed Hastings

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

— Reed Hastings

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

— Reed Hastings

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

— Reed Hastings

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

— Reed Hastings

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

— Reed Hastings

Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money -…

— Reed Hastings

As an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a…

— Reed Hastings

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about…

— Reed Hastings

But it may be one of our best markets in the long term because when the Japanese society embraces a brand it…

— Reed Hastings

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size…

— Reed Hastings

There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.

— Reed Hastings

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very…

— Reed Hastings

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

— Reed Hastings

Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.

— Reed Hastings

Don't be afraid to change the model.

— Reed Hastings

Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we…

— Reed Hastings

I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was…

— Reed Hastings

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

— Reed Hastings