Possible: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers

Reed Hastings has announced he'll leave the board at Netflix, the company he co-founded. Before that news broke, Reid and Aria sat down with Hastings on "Possible" to talk about how technology has rewritten the rules of entertainment before, but AI takes him back to his beginnings. He studied AI at Stanford in the late '80s, decades before it became the only conversation in tech. Few people have watched this moment build from as many vantage points: he's served on the boards of Microsoft, Meta, Bloomberg, and, now, Anthropic. In this episode, they talk about what AI changes in entertainment in the stories themselves, and who gets to tell them. They ask what AI can deliver for education, an area Reed has poured hundreds of millions to reform. They dig into whether the disruption coming for workers is a wages problem, a jobs problem, or something else entirely. And they ask what a two-superpower AI race means for everyone else. For more info on Possible and transcripts of all its episodes, visit See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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Possible: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers is an episode from Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman by WaitWhat.

This episode is 00:59:10 long.

This episode was published on Apr 25, 2026.

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