Donโt get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.
Reed HastingsTomorrow 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.
Reed HastingsI learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
Reed HastingsAbout 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.
Reed HastingsTechnological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.
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