David a few weeks ago, Reed Hastings surprised the corporate world when he said even though he was the ceo and founder of netflix, he would give up that position and become the coceo. I have been a coceo for a while. It can work and it did work for me but it is challenging to be the sole ceo and be the coceo. When you talk to Reed Hastings, you realize he does not have a big ego. He is willing to listen to other people. I think it will work and i think it is working. The company now, which went public in 2002, the market cap is up 86,000 . Stock is up 41,000 since then. Did you ever think it would become that big, that successful . Reed no, because then i would never have sold a share. You never know on that. Honestly, there has been a lot of luck along the way. Blockbuster could have wiped us out many times. When viacom spun off blockbuster in 2004, they saddled them with 1 billion of debt as their goodbye kiss. The covenant on that debt severely limited blockbuster when they attacked
That day . [laughter] david a few weeks ago, Reed Hastings surprised the corporate world when he said even though he was the ceo and founder of netflix, he would give up that position and become the coceo. I have been a coceo for a while. It can work and it did work for me, but it is challenging to be the sole ceo and be the coceo. When you talk to Reed Hastings, you realize he does not have a big ego. He is willing to listen to other people. I think it will work and i think it is working. The company now, which went public in 2002, the market cap is up about 86,000 . Stock is up 41,000 since then. Did you ever think it would become that big, that successful . Reed no, because then i would never have sold a share. You never know on that. Honestly, there has been a lot of luck along the way, too. Blockbuster could have wiped us out many times. When viacom spun off blockbuster in 2004, they saddled them with 1 billion of debt as their goodbye kiss. The covenant on that debt severely limi
A few weeks ago, Reed Hastings surprised the corporate world when he said even though he was the ceo and founder of netflix, he would give up that position and become the coceo. I have been a coceo for a while. It can work and it did work for me but it is challenging to be the sole ceo and be the coceo. When you talk to Reed Hastings, you realize he does not have a big ego. He is willing to listen to other people. I think it will work and i think it is working. The company now, which went public in 2002, the market cap is up 86,000 . Stock is up 41,000 since then. Did you ever think it would become that big, that successful . Reed no, because then i would never have sold a share. You never know on that. Honestly, there has been a lot of luck along the way. Blockbuster could have wiped us out many times. When viacom spun off blockbuster in 2004, they saddled them with a billion dollars of debt as their goodbye kiss. The covenant on that debt severely limited blockbuster when they attack
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That day . David a few weeks ago, Reed Hastings surprised the corporate world when he said even though he was the ceo and founder of netflix, he would give up that position and become the coceo. I have been a coceo for a while. It can work and it did work for me but it is challenging to be the sole ceo and be the coceo. When you talk to Reed Hastings, you realize he does not have a big ego. He is willing to listen to other people. I think it will work and i think it is working. The company now, which went public in 2002, the market cap is up 86,000 . Stock is up 41,000 since then. Did you ever think it would become that big, that successful . Reed no, because then i would never have sold a share. You never know on that. Honestly, there has been a lot of luck along the way. Blockbuster could have wiped us out many times. When viacom spun off blockbuster in 2004, they saddled them with a billion dollars of debt as their goodbye kiss. The covenant on that debt severely limited blockbuster