Reed Hastings

“If you have great people working for you can manage a lot of them. If you don't have great people working for you have too many direct reports.”

“Kind of the example that I use, the parallel example, is Reed Hastings when he switched the business from CDs to streaming, which, or DVDs to streaming, sorry. You know, he had no streaming revenue, and, you know, the DVD business was, not only was the entire …”

“It's also one of the favorites of Daniel Eck at Spotify, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings at Netflix.”

“There are a lot of people who know a lot about education. There are a lot of people who have Built billion dollar companies and taken technology companies public. I think John Danner and Reed Hastings are basically the only people who are both at the same time…”

“One is that they deal with the world as it is, not as they want it to be. And they process data at a bit rate that, you know, humbles most of us. And they have the capacity to pivot based on the data that they ingest.”

“In this particular quarter, we had, I don't know, 30 or fifty million dollars to spend. And Reed Really wanted Ted to invest it in, in in feature film content, and which Ted thought was a really stupid idea and argued about it for weeks, and finally, you know,…”

“Daniel was using my pattern recognition skills as exceptional in his own way as Reed was exceptional in his way. Kind of, you know, one in twenty-five million.”