Reed Hastings Quotes

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

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Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and chairman of Netflix, Inc., which provides the Netflix streaming service. Hastings serves on a number of boards and works with various non-profit organizations. A former president of the California State Board of Education, Hastings is also an advocate for charter schools.
As of May 2025, Forbes estimated Hastings's net worth at $6.6 billion.

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

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

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 m...

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

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the t...

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

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every...

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,...