How to Cultivate High Performance - Reed Hastings, Co-Founder of Netflix

Reed Hastings became executive chairman of Netflix in 2023, after 25 years as CEO. He co-founded Netflix in 1997. Reed is also a majority owner of Powder Mountain. He is currently on the board of several educational organizations including KIPP and Pahara.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] Start
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[05:12] Reed Hasting's bio
[06:49] Alfred Lee Loomis and Tuxedo Park.
[08:07] Risk tolerance: nature or nurture?
[11:11] Cultivating culture that “eats strategy for lunch.”
[15:56] The logic behind generous severance.
[17:16] Adapting to Pure chaos.
[18:58] Reference checking potential hires.
[20:43] Context vs. control.
[22:49] Radical candor.
[24:29] Guardrails for maintaining work/life balance.
[27:28] Farming for dissent.
[28:53] Believing in the green crystals.
[31:08] High-performance team, not family.
[32:13] The keeper test.
[33:03] Fire and replace, or replace and fire?
[34:13] Beyond Entrepreneurship and other recommended reading/viewing.
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[38:00] A favorite failure.
[40:46] Outstanding leaders.
[41:24] Reed’s two “religions.”
[42:33] Powder Mountain.
[44:58] How Powder Mountain differs from Reed’s other projects.
[46:38] Powder Mountain’s biggest challenges ahead.
[47:16] Could Reed ever really retire?
[47:33] Best investments of time, energy, or money.
[49:03] How can we improve education in the US?
[53:02] What class would Reed teach?
[54:13] Juggling projects without losing focus.
[55:28] Philanthropy: Why Africa?
[55:46] Being “big-hearted champions who pick up the trash.”
[56:51] Reed’s billboard.
[58:15] Parting thoughts.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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[@AlexMacGregor]

Wow. Great episode!

[@theanniewooding]

Perfect 💎 of 100 carats or more no less! Thank you for being paragon Tim! ❤

[@summerofsais]

Gouge the customers any chance you can too lol

[@ReeseDee]

Dont watch netflix and you will perform better 😂

[@muradinky]

You're right

[@bqpdobqpd]

But that’s not enough! I only subscribe to Netflix when I have something I desperately want to watch and allow myself only for a month but still… so much other entertainment/ distractions out there😅😢😂

[@GoofyToony]

Great conversation, been listening to Tim for over a decade now 🥲