"My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and……" — 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 got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures."
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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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