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

He'll work on, give you an example.

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

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

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

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

And they're now in field trials.

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

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

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.

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

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

is amazing.

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

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

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

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

and cook dinner and hang out with your kids.

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

So the flexibility of what modern technology offers provides you an opportunity to do great integration.

Another would be, you know, while you're running, listening to a podcast.

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