"I got the idea for Netflix after my……" — Reed Hastings
"I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault."
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51 Quotes by Reed Hastings
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Be big, fast and flexible.
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Don't be afraid to change the model.
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Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people…
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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When there’s an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has,…
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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…
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Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
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I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
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Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people…
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Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's…
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I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head…
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I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
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