09 February, 2013

Reed Hastings on Arrested Development, House of Cards, and the Future of Netflix: Movies TV: GQ

Reed Hastings on Arrested Development, House of Cards, and the Future of Netflix: Movies TV: GQ: But most important, there came the Internet and Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos and Reed Hastings, who blew up all the old paradigms about who, what, when, where, why, and even how we watch, busting the chains that bind us to our cable boxes, to the never-ending scroll of 739 channels, to our prime-time prison.

Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, has a name for this prison and what it does to the people trapped inside it: managed dissatisfaction. "The traditional entertainment ecosystem is built on it, and it's a totally artificial concept," says Hastings.