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Why Netflix CEO Reed Hastings calls his company 'the anti-Apple'

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said on Saturday that his company's culture of open information-sharing among its employees makes it like an "anti-Apple."

  • "We're like the anti-Apple. They compartmentalize, we do the opposite. Everyone gets all the information," he said.
  • Hastings, a Facebook board member, also discussed Facebook's recent privacy scandals and explained how social networks like Facebook are "
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Netflix CEO and Facebook board member Reed Hastings spoke on his company's culture and Facebook's recent privacy scandals at a TED conference in Vancouver on Saturday.

Hastings said that Netflix's open culture of information-sharing among its employees makes it an "anti-Apple," in that Apple witholds sensitive information and product developments from many within its company, Wired reports.

Hastings also discussed how criticism of Facebook over its Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal was "

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