Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: October 8, 1960
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term..
I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbu….
Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now..
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said,….
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use..
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….
Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content..
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses..