Talk to Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings for more than a few minutes and he’s bound to bring up Disney. Hastings has got the entertainment giant in his line of sight as he plots Netflix’s ascendance to the top of the Hollywood food chain. “We want to beat Disney in family animation,” says Hastings when asked what area of programming he felt that the streaming giant, which releases hundreds of titles around the world each year, has yet to master. “That’s going to take a while.
I mean, they are really good at it.” Though Hastings has called himself a Bob Iger wannabe, he approaches the job of dominating Hollywood much differently than the former Disney CEO. “Well, I don’t wake up at 4 a.m.
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