This week I moderated a fireside chat with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at a historic movie theatre in downtown Santa Cruz. For those who don't live in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz is a sleepy little beach town a mountain away from San Jose. It's filled with hippies and is one of the only places in the Bay Area that the reach and wealth of Silicon Valley hasn't changed. There's always a debate about whether that's good or bad. The town would certainly love more high-tech jobs so people who want to live and work in Santa Cruz have more options. But Hastings and his family live in Santa Cruz, precisely because it's not Menlo Park. In an hour interview, Hastings and I traded plenty of barbs (he never calls me back yet seems to lavish attention on Om Malik), discussed the future of digital entertainment, Netflix's unique corporate culture, when video services like Netflix will go global, and as a large supporter of charter schools, his thoughts on the documentary "Waiting for Superman." The local NPR station has the podcast of the talk here. In case you don't want to sit through an hour of banter, I'm posting a few shorter clips. In this one we talk about how Hastings utterly proved me wrong.
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