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Reed Hastings

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The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And takes bold, ambitious bets, curing disease, many other things, energy.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

So very long-term oriented.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

He'll work on, give you an example.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

There's a terrible virus that affects cassava in Africa.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And cassava is like potato, but it's the main crop, main calorie crop of many countries and people.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And this virus is continuing to spread, maybe naturally, maybe through climate change.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And he's been working for more than a decade to find genetically modified variants that don't suffer from this virus.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And they're now in field trials.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And I was at one of the field trials recently, and it's stunning.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

I mean, you know, basically the plants with this virus

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

A genetic modification don't get the virus, and instead of getting a 10% or 20% yield that a farmer gets because the virus has taken 80% or 90%, they get a 95% yield.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

So it's like five or ten times more food produced.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

But the foresight that Bill's team had to have to figure out what to back early –

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

is amazing.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

So that kind of deep science for again, improved human welfare is very inspiring.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Yeah, I think of it as work-life integration.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

When you have a bad example of work-life integration is pulling up your phone in the middle of dinner with your family.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And a good example is you might come home at 5.30.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

and cook dinner and hang out with your kids.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And then at eight, you know, maybe they're watching TV and you go do an hour or two of work.