Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Reed Hastings 
Age 57    Net Worth $2.4 Billion
Born Boston, Massachusetts    Citizen US
Selfmade in movie streaming, co-founded Netflix in 1997 with Marc Randolph

Education:   BS  Mathematics  Bowdoin College 
                    MS  Computer Science  Stanford University 

This is picture of Reed Hastings




This is my youtube link to Reed Hastings 
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=bbU9uec_QQs
Netflix is now in 190 countries, with about 110 million subscribers 

When Reed Hastings started Netflix in 1997,  the DVD players was found in less than 1% of US households.  The price tag of $600 for DVD player means most Americans could not afford




He beat Blockbuster Video, a huge company with billions of sales in the 1990s.  


NetFlix's most famous show is "House of Cards" 


Staring Kevin Spacey

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