Reed Hastings Year Quotations

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.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

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 Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads.

(Last year) was another year of solid achievement and continued momentum. We enter 2006 confident we can reach our goal of 20 million subscribers within the 2010 to 2012 time frame.

Bill Henderson is about the only person on the planet who looks at our volume of mail as a trickle. We'll look for him to extend our current competitive advantages in this area, particularly as our mail volume increases with our forecasted growth to at least 5.65 million subscribers this year and 20 million by 2010-2012.