Reed Hastings

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Executive

Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997. In 1991, Reed founded Pure Software, which made tools for software developers. After a 1995 IPO, and several acquisitions, Pure was acquired by Rational Software in 1997. Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He is currently on the board of several educational organizations including KIPP and Pahara. Reed is also a board member of The City Fund. Reed received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983, and an MSCS in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Swaziland.

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Reed Hasting's Top 5 Lessons Learned Being CEO of Netflix

Short

Actor

2020

The Virtual Revolution

7.6

TV Series

Self - CEO and Founder: Netflix

60 Minutes

7.4

TV Series

Self - CEO, Netflix (segment "Netflix")

Kulturplatz

7.2

TV Series

Self

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Founder of Pure Software and Netflix, and its current CEO. Serves on the Board of Directors of Microsoft.

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What's unique for Netflix is that we get to release these programs around the world at the same time. That's a tremendous difference, because everywhere else the entertainment landscape is Balkanized, nation by nation. Cable networks all have their agreements about how soon a show can be made available. We're part of the next wave, where it's all one world, one Internet.