Reed Hastings - Building Netflix
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- Published
- January 6, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 2m
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Apr 17, 2026
Discusses business, investing, technology.
Summary
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 more than a stepping stone toward stre…
Show notes
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 more than a stepping stone toward streaming, which they envisioned from the company’s inception in 1997. The second is talent density, and what it actually takes to set and sustain
Themes
- business
- investing
- technology