Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy — Reed Hastings - Building Netflix - [Invest Like the Best, EP.453]

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Reed Hastings - Building Netflix - [Invest Like the Best, EP.453]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · 453

My guest today is Reed Hastings, the co-founder and former longtime CEO of Netflix. Netflix is an example of two ideas that everyone talks about, but are extremely hard to do in practice. The first is finding a simple idea and taking it extraordinarily seriously. Reed talks about how even the DVD business was nothing…

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