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.

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.

I watch mostly independent films.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.

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

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.