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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Reed Hastings founder and co-CEO of Netflix

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

In Good Company, Business, Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen

4.8186 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Nicolai Tangen talks to Reed Hastings Founder and co-CEO of Netflix. They talk about how Netflix changed the entertainment industry, their unique corporate culture and how Netflix is dealing with the current competitive environment.


The production team on this episode were PLAN-B’s Tor-Erik Humlen and Olav Haraldsen Roen. Background research were done by Sigurd Brekke with additional input from our portfolio manager Soumi Mitra.


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0:00.0

So, Reid, you pretty much single-handedly have changed the way we consume entertainment.

0:26.1

How does that feel?

0:27.4

Well, obviously, it's been a huge team effort, and there was this little thing called the Internet,

0:31.5

so we did get some help.

0:33.8

And the Internet's been transformative over so much of our lives.

0:38.5

And in video, whether that's YouTube, TikTok, Netflix, a lot of new innovative companies.

0:45.8

But when you had that kind of success, how do you stay humble?

0:49.3

Well, my success was later in life.

0:52.1

So I think it was, it's not that hard in your 40s and 50s.

0:55.0

I think if you have great success in your 20s, it's probably quite challenging.

0:59.0

Yeah.

1:00.0

Now, going back to your early days, you taught English in Africa, and you said a few places that

1:07.0

that's really taught you resilience and empathy. How come?

1:11.2

Yeah, right out of university. I went to East Watini and it was a high school math teacher actually.

1:19.0

And I worked hard at a very rural place, the kids worked hard. And I remember at one point there was a question on the exams that was a tile floor.

1:29.8

It's, you know, so many meters by so many meters and the tiles are, you know, X centimeter

1:34.8

by Y centimeter, how many tiles?

1:36.8

You know, like a pretty basic question.

1:39.1

And they all struggled with it.

1:40.5

These were very sophisticated kids.

1:43.5

And it was only later in the session when one of them raised their hand kind of sheepishly and said,

1:49.1

hey, Mr. Hastings, what's a tile?

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