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Reed Hastings Biography
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board Chair of Netflix
Born Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr., c. ; married; children: two.
Education: Earned undergraduate degree in mathematics from Bowdoin College, ; earned masters degrees from Stanford University, in computer science, , and in education.
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Addresses: Office University Ave., Los Gatos, CA
Career
Served in the Peace Corps in Swaziland, ; worked as a software developer, c. ; founded Pure Atria Software, , and sold it to Rational Software, ; director of TechNet, a political lobbying group; president of the California State Board of Education, ; founded Netflix, Inc., , and serves as president, chief executive officer, and board chair.
Sidelights
Reed Hastings founded the phenomenally successful DVD-rental company, Netflix, but the Web-based mail-order service was not his first entrepreneurial venture. Hastings was already wealthy from the software company he founded and so