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Netflix Co-Founder Reed Hastings Says Companies Aren’t Families: ‘You Would Never Lay Off Two of Your Kids’

BenzingaAug 19, 2026, 10:05 AMTanya Rawat

Reed Hastings explains why companies should operate like teams, not families, after Netflix’s 2001 mass layoff.

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