Reed Hastings
11 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Ben Horowitz · said 51 times in 12 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Reed Hastings's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Mentions by year
brought up most by Ted Sarandos (23), Marc Andreessen (9), Ben Horowitz (7), Martin Casado (4), Lars Dalgaard (4), Alex Rampell (3), Margit Wennmachers (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 25 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
2018 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2017 6 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Reed Hastings, oldest first
Jul 16, 2017 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Hastings: Managing creative teams like semiconductor yield kills innovation
“You know, at Pure, I was a product guy, and I didn't think much about management, and it didn't turn out very well, so as the company grew, it got more bureaucratic we were obsessed with putting processes in place, because every time there was a mistake, we wa…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Hastings: Netflix was named for streaming because DVD-by-mail was temporary
“So we always viewed the DVD by mail as a digital distribution network, And then we knew eventually, and that's why we called the company Netflix and not DVD by mail or, you know, that kind of thing. So we had the slight advantage that the thing that we, our fi…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Hastings: Netflix will not buy a telecom company
“So do we need to buy a telco? No, because we're not trying to, you know, we work with over 500 ISPs around the world. Ok, so just like Facebook, or Google, or anyone, or an internet company, the last thing, I mean, you know, how well is Google Fiber worked out…”
Jan 2, 2019
Hastings: Business strategy requires pruning decision trees like grandmaster chess
“And really, to be great at business, it's like being great at chess, and you have to anticipate which series of things, seven, eight moves down, are likely to happen, And by the time in chess you go seven or eight moves, the tree of possibilities, you know, is…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Hastings: Video streaming timelines were predictable from bandwidth growth trends
“If you look at median residential bandwidth from 1980 forward, it's completely smooth. And so we've gone through multiple technologies, first different types of dial-up, and then the beginnings of DSL and cable and fiber. And so interestingly, the speeds at wh…”
Jan 2, 2019
Sarandos: Reed Hastings originally pledged Netflix would never make original programming
“When we've made a move into original programming, We were so convinced as a company that we would never do original programming that Reed had said, we'll never do original programming, yet I knew that I was in a safe place to do it.”
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Andreessen told Reed Hastings in 2004 that Netflix streaming was crazy
“I remember meeting with Reed Hastings in, I think, 2004 and, you know, Netflix was up and running and was very successful doing a DVD rental by mail. And he literally, you know, reads, reads a technical genius in addition to being a business genius. And he sai…”
Aug 27, 2026 positive
Casado: Cursor rapidly self-cannibalized from an IDE to an agent and model platform
“And I think another thing that the Cursor team probably doesn't get, you know, the level of credit for is to the extent they cannibalized themselves so dramatically in like a Reed Hastings type way in a matter of two years, right? So they were first an IDE, an…”