Reed Hastings

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 17 Apr

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The Knowledge Project · Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment · 10 Jun 2025 podcast

Some universities seem good but aren't really, or it can be a good university and you have a bad experience.

So there's no perfect outcome in that.

And then in general for charter schools, in wealthy areas where the schools are pretty good, the existing government schools, there's not much incentive to change.

Basically, for example, in Palo Alto, California, there's no charter schools, but in East Palo Alto, which is quite poor right next door, there's a bunch of charter schools because the parents are desperate for change and options.

So the charters have really focused on the lowest income kids because they don't have great government schools and they're willing to take a chance and try the new charter school.

And some of those charter schools have worked out fantastically.

In the old days, for me, it was Jeff Bezos, but now he's retired.

So, yeah, probably would be Jamie Dimon at this point since he's still active and such a broad intellectual.

And it'd be fascinating to sort of be on his shoulder for a week.

Yeah.

I really don't know that they have any misconception.

I'm not confident of what their perception is.

I would say for now, I'm focusing on turning around this cool ski area as a passion project and making it this fantastic and unique place, continuing the charter school work.

that helps, you know, get kids more opportunity.

So I would say if people have opportunity, it's that I'm trying to do things that are a balance of fun and good.

And, you know, powder is 90% fun and 10% good, you know, and the charter school work is 30% fun and 70% good.

So it's a range of different projects that way.

His basic approach is a technocratic approach to human welfare, to sort of sit down and try to think, okay, what are the causes of human misery and how do I knock them down one by one?

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

So very long-term oriented.

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