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I hate the photo shoots.
Be big, fast and flexible.
I watch mostly independent films.
Don't be afraid to change the model.
Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.
I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.
School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.
I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.
I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.
On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.
Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.
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.
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.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.
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.
Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.
Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
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.
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.