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Reed Hastings: My CEO was washing my coffee cups at 4 AM

Reed Hastings

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Source: YouTube

Date: March 27, 2026

Participants: Reed Hastings

Record ID: iri_01KMP9ED00KDTFSBX0JRRNG063

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Two stories that shaped how Reed Hastings thinks about leadership. First: arriving at the office at 4:30 in the morning to discover his CEO silently washing the dirty coffee cups he'd been leaving at his desk for a year — a quiet act of...

Topics: leadership, technology, Netflix

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Two stories that shaped how Reed Hastings thinks about leadership.