Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: “No Rules Rules”

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings discusses the streaming giant’s corporate culture in his book, “No Rules Rules.” In an extended interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Hastings shares his strategy for driving social change from the C Suite and his plans to take on Disney in family entertainment. In a conversation exclusive to Squawk Pod, Andrew reflects on the biggest takeaways from the interview, as well as what he expects from media giants during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. Plus, AstraZeneca’s promising Covid-19 vaccine trials are suspended and NYC rentals are empty.

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0:00.0	This is Guacapod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our podcast,
0:06.0	Netflix's Reed Hastings, CEO of the Stay at Home Mainstay, has got big plans.
0:11.0	We want to get better than Disney and family entertainment and that's
0:16.1	going to take five or ten years. You know, they are very, very good at it.
0:19.7	Inside the streaming giant, the man who made it and what might be the next big thing in your cue.
0:25.1	Prince Harry, Megan Markle, how did it happen?
0:28.2	Gonna be epic entertainment.
0:30.2	And a conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin,
0:32.3	exclusive to this podcast.
0:33.7	It's sort of a corporate version of The Hunger Games.
0:36.7	That is scary, right?
0:38.2	It's scary, but there's also a remarkable honesty.
0:43.0	Plus trial troubles for AstraZeneca and a whole new meaning to the term work
0:47.5	steady with C.N.C.'s John Ford.
0:49.6	I know COVID adjustments are hard for everyone, but they're a special health for the parents of school-aged
0:54.7	children. It's Thursday, September 10th, 2020, Squawk Hot begins right now.
1:01.3	Good morning everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box here on
1:03.5	see MBC. I'm Becky Quick along with Joe Vernon and Andrew Ross
1:06.5	Sorkin. First up on today's podcast, an update on the AstraZeneca story
1:11.7	hitting COVID vaccine coverage.
1:13.4	Earlier this week the British company suspended late stage coronavirus vaccine trials
1:18.8	after a participant in the UK reported symptoms associated with a rare spinal
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