US Entrepreneurs, Biography, Reed Hastings, Netflix, Born in 1960
US Entrepreneurs, Biography, Reed Hastings, Netflix, Born in 1960
Reed Hastings is an American entrepreneur best known for founding the popular streaming service, Netflix, in 1997.
He was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts.
He attended Bowdoin College in Maine, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983.
After college, Hastings worked as a software developer and then as a member of the Peace Corps in Africa.
In 1991, he founded the educational software company, Pure Software, which he sold in 1997.
In 1997, Hastings founded Netflix, which at first was a DVD rental service by mail.
In 2007, Netflix began streaming content online and has since become one of the most popular streaming services in the world.
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