Netflix CEO interview, circa 1997
December 16, 2010 9:01 AM Subscribe
Please help me find this interview with Reed Hastings, conducted/published in the very early days of Netflix.
So I have a vague memory of an interview with Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, probably in 1997 or 1998. IIRC there were lots of companies trying to figure out video-on-demand and how to make money at it, and the interviewer asked Reed if his company was exploring it. His answer was something to the effect of, "there's already a great delivery infrastructure in place - the post office - so why would we build a new infrastructure?"
Reasonably certain about the use of the word "infrastructure," but that's about all I have to go on, and my Google-fu is clearly not strong enough this time.
So I have a vague memory of an interview with Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, probably in 1997 or 1998. IIRC there were lots of companies trying to figure out video-on-demand and how to make money at it, and the interviewer asked Reed if his company was exploring it. His answer was something to the effect of, "there's already a great delivery infrastructure in place - the post office - so why would we build a new infrastructure?"
Reasonably certain about the use of the word "infrastructure," but that's about all I have to go on, and my Google-fu is clearly not strong enough this time.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/51463/three_minutes_with_netflix_ceo_reed_hastings.html
posted by Gerard Sorme at 10:41 AM on December 16, 2010