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Reed Hastings

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 8, 1960

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

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

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In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

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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 for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

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There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

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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 ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

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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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Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

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I watch mostly independent films.

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

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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 what's happening now.

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It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

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

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

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I hate the photo shoots.

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

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

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How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

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

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I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

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