Reed Hastings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Hastings

Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the CEO of Netflix and serves on the boards of Facebook and numerous non-profit organizations.

Peace Corps service

Hastings entered Marine Corps officer training through their Platoon Leader Class and spent the summer of 1981 in Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. "I found myself questioning how we packed our backpacks and how we made our beds," said Hastings. "My questioning wasn’t particularly encouraged, and I realized I might be better off in the Peace Corps. I petitioned the recruiting office and left the Marines."

Hastings joined the Peace Corps after graduating from Bowdoin College "out of a combination of service and adventure" says Hastings, and went to teach high school math in Swaziland from 1983 to 1985. Hastings credits part of his entrepreneurial spirit to his time in the Peace Corps. "It was an extremely satisfying experience." "Once you have hitchhiked across Africa with ten bucks in your pocket, starting a business doesn't seem too intimidating."

After returning from the Peace Corps, Hastings went on to attend Stanford University: "I didn’t get into my first choice, which was MIT, but I got accepted to Stanford," he says. He graduated in 1988 with a master's degree in computer science.

Founding of Pure Software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Hastings#Founding_of_Pure_Software

Founding of Netflix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Hastings#Founding_of_Netflix

Other business interests

Reed Hastings has been a director of the board of Facebook since June 2011.

Hastings also served on the board of Microsoft from 2007 until 2012.

Educational and political activism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Hastings#Educational_and_politica...

Personal

Hastings was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Joan Amory (Loomis) and Wilmot Reed Hastings.[40] His maternal great-grandfather was attorney Alfred Lee Loomis. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, is married, and has two children.

He was featured in a front-page article in USA Today in 1995, posing on his Porsche. Nowadays he eschews flamboyance and says if he ever appeared on the front page of USA Today again it will "not [be] on the hood of a Porsche, but I would [pose] with a bunch of movies."

One of Hastings' favorite movies is Gloomy Sunday. "It is about a love triangle in Budapest with great sadness and redemption. Thankfully, there are no parallels to Netflix," says Hastings.

In 2012 Hastings was photographed by photographer Kevin Abosch for his project FACES:TECH.