Broad Quote by Reed Hastings

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

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 societies. This…

— Reed Hastings

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

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 office. For…

— 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