About Reed Hastings
- Reed Hastings, cofounder and chairman of Netflix, revolutionized how the world is entertained. He owns about 2% of Netflix, which went public in 2002.
- Hastings cofounded Netflix in 1995, after he sold his first company, Pure Software, to Rational Software. He stepped down as co-CEO in January 2023.
- The video-streaming service offers TV shows and films, as well as original content, to 222 million members globally.
- Netflix originally operated as a DVD subscription service, but began streaming content in 2007.
- In 2020 Hastings and his wife Patty donated $120 million to fund scholarships at two historically Black colleges and the United Negro College Fund.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 63
- Source of Wealth
- Netflix, Self Made
- Residence
- Santa Cruz, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Bowdoin College; Master of Science, Stanford University
Did you know
The son of a Nixon administration lawyer, Hastings studied math at Bowdoin and served in the Peace Corps in Swaziland.
Hastings holds a graduate degree in artificial intelligence from Stanford.
In Their Own Words
Incredible people don't want to be micromanaged. We manage through setting context and letting people run.
Reed Hastings
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