Reed Hastings
Co- founder of Netflix
Current Residence
Santa Cruz, California
Education Experience:
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Business Experience:
- Chairman/ CEO at Netflix
- Board Member; Facebook, Kipp Foundation, Pahara Institute, Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley, Dreambox, California Charter Schools Association, Microsoft
- President of California State Board of Education
- CEO- Pure software
- Software Engineer- Network Equipment Technologies, Coherent Thought.
- Member Technical Staff; Schlumberger Palo Alto Research.
- Lisp Instructor Assistant; Symbolics
- Math Teacher
3 interesting facts!
Served in the U.S marine corps. After highschool he sold vacuum cleaners door to door for almost a year. He is also married and has two kids.
Timeline
- 1960- Born
- 1978- Graduated High School
- 1982 -
- He attended a private college (Bowdoin) which is where he got his degree
- He then joined the peace corps and then went to Swaziland and had thought math for 3 years.
- He came back to America and earned his graduate degree in computer science from the university of Stanford.
- 1988- Reed entered Marine corps officer training through their Platoon Leader class he he spend in the summer of 1981 at Quantico, Virginia.
- 1991- Reed got his first employment at Adaptive Technology which he later on quit to start his own company "Pure Software" which surprisingly grew rapidly.
- 1997- He eventually found Netflix, Inc. He has been the chairman, CEO and President since September in 1997 and July, 1999.
Description of the product that the entrepreneur created
Netflix!
Netflix is a video rental and distribution company that can be used online on any electronic device if Netflix is available or allowed in the device.
Description of the product that the Entrepreneur created:
Netflix, Inc.
Netflix is a video rental and distribution company.
Citations:
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