Netflix CEO Understood "mailing people DVDs was a mere way station on the road to streaming video."

Chunka Mui, who co-authored “Billion-Dollar” Lessons with Paul B.Carroll, wrote an interesting piece for Forbes.com on the success of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ vision to stream movies over the Internet directly into people’s homes.
Mui suggest that Hastings should really get credit for “the diligence with which he prepared the way for his vision – and that method is one that others can emulate.”

I agree because the Internet is an ever changing habitat that is sure to open new visions as it evolves beyond mainstream movies.

Mui points out that Hastings was motivated by a big idea “that mailing people DVDs was a mere way station on the road to streaming video.”

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