Their images projected onto a giant Delta Center video screen, Ryan Smith (left), owner of the Utah Jazz and co-founder and chairman of the Smith Entertainment Group, chats with Reed Hastings, co-founder and executive chairman of Netflix Inc. Their discussion was part of the two-day Silicon Slopes Summit, which attracted thousands of tech enthusiasts for the eighth annual event.

Brice Wallace 

Taking over a well-known, established entity provides an opportunity for innovation, but also presents challenges, including determining “what do you give up versus what do you double-down on?”

That was the theme for a recent on-stage chat between Ryan Smith, owner of the Utah Jazz and co-founder and chairman of the Smith Entertainment Group, and Reed Hastings, co-founder and executive chairman of Netflix Inc. During the eighth annual Silicon Slopes Summit, Smith, the relatively new owner of the Utah Jazz, and Hastings, the new majority owner of the Please log in to see the rest of this story.