Jay Hoag

If you add people, do it in a measured way and only add exceptional people.

We have had a lot of exceptional people.

We also have had periods of time where we expanded too quickly.

Go try to find a segment that is relatively unexploited and therefore maybe has to be a little more contrarian, which also then means the fundraising is going to be harder.

We did an aptitude test.

My best industry to go into was agriculture, going off to college, et cetera.

But I was a huge John Wooden disciple.

long time coach at UCLA.

And his pyramid of success is something I've tried to live by, is you need to have your own definition of success, not somebody else's.

And that success is a peace of mind, which is a direct result of the self-satisfaction of knowing you've done the best to become the best you're capable of becoming.

So to me,

That's the art stick I try to hold myself up to, and maybe that's why I don't sleep that well in the morning, because I want to get up and continue to try to be as best I can.

The one other personal angle in the Netflix story, which has never gotten much airtime, thank God I paid attention to my first aid training as a kid.

I think it was in 2002, ended up having to do the Heimlich maneuver on Reed.

So if value-add is you saved the life of a CEO, he had a piece of meat that couldn't get dislodged.

It was two of us in a conference room.

So it's all much humorously, but pay attention to your first day of class at me coming.

Yeah, it's component building blocks that lead up to definite success.

And he had some funny lines like, be quick, but don't hurry.

To this day, I'm not exactly sure.