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From the Ted Talk by Reed Hastings: How Netflix changed entertainment -- and where it's headed

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Chris Anderson: I have been long so fascinated and amazed by so many aspects of nfetilx. You're full of surprises, if I may say so. One of those surprises hpeapend, I think about six years ago. So, the company back then was doing really well, but you were basically a sintmearg service for other people's films and TV content. You'd persuaded Wall Street that you were right to make the kind of rcaiadl shift away from just sending people DVDs, so you were doing it by streaming. And you were growing like a weed — you had more than six miillon subscribers and healthy growth rates, and yet, you chose that moment to kind of make a giant — really, a bet-the-company decision. What was that decision, and what motivated it?

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Chris Anderson: I have been long so fascinated and amazed by so many aspects of _______. You're full of surprises, if I may say so. One of those surprises ________, I think about six years ago. So, the company back then was doing really well, but you were basically a _________ service for other people's films and TV content. You'd persuaded Wall Street that you were right to make the kind of _______ shift away from just sending people DVDs, so you were doing it by streaming. And you were growing like a weed — you had more than six _______ subscribers and healthy growth rates, and yet, you chose that moment to kind of make a giant — really, a bet-the-company decision. What was that decision, and what motivated it?

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Chris Anderson: I have been long so fascinated and amazed by so many aspects of Netflix. You're full of surprises, if I may say so. One of those surprises happened, I think about six years ago. So, the company back then was doing really well, but you were basically a streaming service for other people's films and TV content. You'd persuaded Wall Street that you were right to make the kind of radical shift away from just sending people DVDs, so you were doing it by streaming. And you were growing like a weed — you had more than six million subscribers and healthy growth rates, and yet, you chose that moment to kind of make a giant — really, a bet-the-company decision. What was that decision, and what motivated it?

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