Reed Hastings – Family, Family Tree

Reed Hastings is the co-founder and CEO of Netflix, a media rental service based on his creative ideas. The company’s services are accessible all over North America, various parts of Europe and also in Australia, South America, and New Zealand. As of July 2015, Netflix reported a user count in excess of 65 million.

Early Life and Education

He grew up to be an adventurous and bright and young man. He studied mathematics at Bowdoin College. Overcome by a sense of both adventure and service, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps and joined the Peace Corps and traveled to Swaziland to taught high school mathematics for two years. He took admission in the Stanford University while returning from the Peace Corps and graduating he knew that he would soon start his own business. He earned his Master’s degree in 1988 in computer science. In 1990, he started his first firm Pure Software which was later affiliated with another business and sold off. He took another risk and collaborated with Marc Randolph to co-found Netflix, however, this time his risk taking paid off immensely well as it became a highly successful project with millions of users from all over the world.

Family Background