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Reed Hastings

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

But there's a sector of the market, maybe more like Whole Foods is to Costco, that's a little more specialty.

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

So people willing to pay for uncrowded skiing.

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

And then that's super fun and you get wide open slopes and low lift lines, but it costs a little more.

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

Yeah, I think powder and the other independents need to strongly counter position.

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

Or just become part of Epic Icon.

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

But you're not going to live as you were because you lose a third of your revenue and all of your profit to the Epic Icon family.

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

And it partially depends where you are geographically.

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

But as a general rule, you've got to counter position quite strongly.

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

No, I mean, again, if you're...

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

historic skier and a purist you might say oh park city is really crowded now but it's also a great value and you've got this great icon or epic pass and so far the money does the talking and people are showing up and visitation is continuing to grow

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

So it's been a very successful model of broadening the skier base.

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

So in Powder Mountain and running that, it's small enough, 150 full-time employees when I took over, that it's pretty intimate.

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

It's not like taking over a substantial business.

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

So I suppose it's a little different, but not materially.

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

Sure.

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

I mean, for the Powder story, we've done many changes on kind of the positioning, you know, created a private skiing option.

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

We've upgraded the employee compensation sense of mission, sense of winning position.

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

many aspects of it.

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

Yeah, substantially.

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

So Powder, I would say we've done, in my opinion, a slightly better job of it from the lessons that we've learned.