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Rick Newman writes: I don’t know if Hastings is right – or what office he’s running for but I do know that taking this public stance is an imaginative and shrewd business move
Netflix’s customer base may include a few upper-crusters who rush to their keyboards to close their accounts. But Hastings’s online video-rental company caters mostly to ordinary middle-class Americans. Hastings is a media darling who has been featured in dozens of articles, and it’s easy to see why: His populist preaching hits the right tone, for the right audience, at the right time. Hastings knows something that a lot of CEOs – especially those on Wall Street – still haven’t figured out: These days, it’s more important than ever to form an emotional bond with your customer. Businessman and Internet Visionary Reed Hastings of California, the founder of Netflix, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Swaziland.
Rick Newman writes: I don’t know if Hastings is right – or what office he’s running for but I do know that taking this public stance is an imaginative and shrewd business move
One CEO Who Gets It
February 06, 2009 03:15 PM ET | Rick Newman | Permanent Link | Print
The jury’s still out on whether there’s a modest CEO in the land. But there’s at least one very clever CEO: Reed Hastings of Netflix.
In a New York Times op-ed, Hastings argues that President Obama’s proposal to limit certain CEO pay is “a terrible idea.” Most CEOs probably agree. But instead of the usual bromides about how CEOs are geniuses who deserve every penny they earn, Hastings proposes an alternative: Tax anybody who earns over $1 million – which includes most Fortune 500 CEOs – at 50 percent. Including him.
You can already hear them moaning at the country club. Here’s how Hastings answers the well-endowed doubters: “Some will tell you that would reduce the incentive to earn but I don’t see that as likely. Besides, half of a giant compensation package is still pretty huge, and most of our motivation is the sheer challenge of the job anyway.”
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I don’t know if Hastings is right – or what office he’s running for. But I do know that taking this public stance is an imaginative and shrewd business move. Netflix’s customer base may include a few upper-crusters who rush to their keyboards to close their accounts. But Hastings’s online video-rental company caters mostly to ordinary middle-class Americans. Hastings is a media darling who has been featured in dozens of articles, and it’s easy to see why: His populist preaching hits the right tone, for the right audience, at the right time.
Hastings knows something that a lot of CEOs – especially those on Wall Street – still haven’t figured out: These days, it’s more important than ever to form an emotional bond with your customer. That was true before Wall Street cratered, because the Internet has enhanced accountability and knocked down barriers between the people at the top of the food chain and the people at the bottom. It’s even more true now, as titans like Citigroup and General Motors and Bernie Madoff topple and the little guy gets revenge. Or at least a hearing.
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