Reed Hastings

Reed, thank you for the trust you placed in us.

Thank you.

It's been a week of medical testing, physical testing, doctors, science objectives.

We have not had that decompression.

We have not had that reflection time.

I just want to say 100% point blank, that was a wonderful toilet.

It's an honor to be with you all.

I wish I had been a behavioral economist.

That was my only real big regret in life.

And so what did I see in AI, which is sort of related, what's the nature of intelligence?

I think I saw a dream of understanding ourselves and our society a little better.

And that was sort of the primary motivator.

I will say that the AI that I studied was the equivalent of the sun goes around the earth field.

So we had a fundamental theory in the 1980s that was completely false and didn't work, but we didn't know it at the time.

So me and many other people then fled to all kinds of other fields.

And it's exciting now to see a new set of techniques really be transformative.

And to Mike's reference on the news this week, you know that I'm enamored with subscription models.

And now I've become more aware about tender offers.

And I like TV channels.

So we're announcing today, Mike, a tender offer for Bloomberg.