Reed Hastings
1960 – ? American entrepreneur, Netflix co-founder
Co-founder of Netflix.
- Religion
- Not publicly documented.
- Affiliations
- Co-founded and long led Netflix; earlier founded the software firm Pure Software; a major education philanthropist.
Wilmot Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix as a DVD-by-mail service in 1997 and pivoted it into the dominant streaming platform. He served as CEO for over two decades. He is a major funder of charter schools and education reform.
In the timeline
- 1997 Founding of Netflix mentioned