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- Reed Hastings, cofounder and executive chairman of Netflix, revolutionized how the world is entertained.
- Hastings stepped down as co-CEO in 2023 and has been lowering his shareholding; he now owns less than 1%.
- He cofounded Netflix in 1997, the same year he sold his first company, Pure Software. He took Netflix public in 2002.
- Netflix originally operated as a DVD subscription service, but began streaming content in 2007.
- In 2020, he and his wife Patty donated 120milliontotwohistoricallyBlackcollegesandtheUnitedNegroCollegeFund.Theirlifetimegivingsurpasses120 million to two historically Black colleges and the United Negro College Fund. Their lifetime giving surpasses 120milliontotwohistoricallyBlackcollegesandtheUnitedNegroCollegeFund.Theirlifetimegivingsurpasses2 billion.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
Age
64
Source of Wealth
Netflix, Self Made
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5
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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