An Evening with Reed Hastings, in Conversation with Michael Eisner

Speakers:

Michael Eisner, Founder, The Tornante Company; former CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Reed Hastings, Co-founder, CEO & Chairman, Netflix




Reed Hastings is co-founder, chairman & CEO of Netflix, the world's largest subscription service streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet and sending DVDs by mail with more than 11 million members. This is a rare opportunity to see and hear Hastings in person as he discusses the future of home entertainment and more, in conversation with Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Churchill Club
• Reed Hastings
• Michael Eisner
• Netflix
• Walt Disney

[MrBeyondproxy]

If you want to know about Michael Eisner, read the book DisneyWar. Great book.

[fortinbras47]

Eisner's question @ 50 minutes is actually very deep! High profits requires some *unique* capability. Sustained profits requires barriers that make it difficult for competitors to copy. What will be the *unique*, hard to copy capability of NetFlix 5 years from now that allows it to sustain profits?

Any content producer can stream (eg. ESPN 360). What stops content providers from squeezing all the profits out of distribution middlemen like Netflix?

[masterdeviance1985]

Watching Eisner redirect the conversation every 10 minutes into some boring antiquated story about Disney came close to ruining this. Thank goodness Hastings more than made up for it with his illuminating advice.

[MrFrankBullitt]

Wow, Michael Eisner is not bright at all.

Go Reed!

[nstardrr]

Wow. Reed Hastings, as always, was fascinating to listen to, even when I disagreed with his opinions. Michael Eisner, on the other hand, made this almost unwatchable by going on long diversions about his life and his outdated ideas.