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“Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.”

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Reed Hastings is an American entrepreneur and business executive, recognized for co-founding and leading Netflix, a global internet entertainment service. He is a pioneer in the streaming industry, transforming the way people consume media. more

“Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we think of as a 'lean-forward' type of entertainment. It's much more intense. But TV is more of a 'lean-back' entertainment - so the big improvement there is on-demand, because it conforms to your schedule.”

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Author:Reed Hastings

“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, "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.”

“If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.”

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Author:Reed Hastings

“When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the total global transformation of a market. To achieve that, you need low prices and an attractive offering. It's about trying to make a positive impact on a big scale.”

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Author:Reed Hastings

“Washington has never seen anything like President Donald Trump.”

President Trump

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to power, to status, to money, to position, to each other, you're going to ruffle a lot of feathers.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“[People] just don't seem to want to give [Donald Trump] any kind of berth at all, let alone a wide berth, to govern.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“It's a big country out there and there are tens of millions of Americans who like what the president [Donald Trump] is doing.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

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