Reed hastings is an american entrepreneur known as the cofounder and ceo of netflix, a subscriptionbased mediaservice provider streaming overthetop media which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced inhouse. Contact celebrity speakers bureau today to hire reed hastings or another top business speaker from our database to entertain and engage your audience at an upcoming corporate conference, speaker series, business summit, trade show or special event. In 1991, reed founded pure software, which made tools for software developers. His father was a lawyer who later worked for the nixon administration. He is the ceo of netflix, and on the board of microsoft and numerous nonprofits. Reed hastings on masters of scale with reid hoffman. In 1996 his company merged with atria software and the next year pure atria was acquired by rational software and hastings was appointed the chief technical officer of both companies. Hastings says he will end his 5 12year stint on the software. Reed hastings is chief executive officer and cofounder of netflix, inc. Netflix ceo reed hastings makes the forbes 400 for the. After a successful public offering and a number of acquisitions, pure was acquired by rational software in 1997.
He is the cofounder, chairman, and chief executive officer ceo of netflix, and serves on a number of boards and nonprofit organizations. Reed hastings is stepping down from microsofts board of directors next month. Hastings studied mathematics at bowdoin college in brunswick, maine, graduating with a bachelors degree in 1983. Along with raymond peck and mark box, he formed his first company, pure software in october 1991. Despite ongoing speculation and investor pressure, netflix is still declining to adopt an advertisingbased business model as a means to boost its. On june 30, 2010, hastings will be a keynote speaker at the national charter. Hastings preferred school reforms, such as heavy use of streaming technologies and data collection, resemble the way he built netflix. Earlier in his career, reed founded pure software, which he built into one of the worlds 50 largest public software companies. Netflix billionaire reed hastings crusade to replace public school teachers with computers. Chief executive reed hastings a tongueincheek opportunity to respond to some of the barbed comments leveled in recent weeks at the fastgrowing subscription service by the head of media giant time warner.
Book reed hastings ceo of netflix, keynote speaker. Check his profile on our website and check his availability to speak. Reed hastings is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics. Netflix 82 downloads 14 pages 3,447 words add in library click this icon and make it bookmark in your library to refer it later. Netflix ceo deflects criticism with humor and albanian. Hastings founded pure software, which developed a debugging tool for engineers. There was a very strong netflix presence at aws re. After a 1995 ipo, and several acquisitions, pure was acquired by rational.
Information on keynote speaking engagements, personal appearances, corporate entertainment and appearance fees for reed hastings, an inspirational motivational speaker. Would your organization like to hire reed hastings as a keynote speaker for your next event. Pure atrias founder and ceo reed hastings retained randolph as vice president of corporate marketing for the rapidly expanding pure atria. After a 1995 ipo, and several acquisitions, pure was acquired by rational software in 1997. Hire reed hastings speaker fee celebrity speakers bureau. Reed hastings cofounded netflix in 1997 and launched the subscription service in 1999.
Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the california state board of education from 2000 to 2004. Contact celebrity speakers bureau today to hire reed hastings as a keynote. Today the company develops, licenses and delivers entertainment across a wide variety of genres and languages to hundreds of millions of people in 190 countries. Contact celebrity speakers bureau today to hire reed hastings or another top business speaker from our database to entertain and engage your audience at an. Meet reed hastings, the man who built netflix business. Most startups would be happy if they were responsible for one major industry disruption. Founder and ceo of netflix reed hastings speaks during a keynote speech at the mobile world congress. Netflix ceo deflects criticism with humor and albanian army dog tags. Reed hastings getty images for the new yorker the first company netflix ceo reed hastings founded was successfully acquired in 1997, but that doesnt mean hastings was a good ceo out of the gate.
Netflix ceo reed hastings is to deliver a keynote address at this years royal television society rts convention, which takes place this september in cambridge, uk. Reed hastings speakers bureau and booking agent info. In 1991, hastings founded pure software, which developed a debugging tool for. He is currently on the board of several educational organizations including kipp and pahara. He founded his first company, pure software, in 1991, after inventing the companys initial product, purify. The event will feature a keynote by netflix founder reed hastings. He completed a tour in the peace corps, where he taught math in swaziland.
Netflix ceo reed hastings ces 2016 keynote the streaming video services chief talks about what netflix has in store for the coming year. Rocketships rich patron, reed hastings, drops a bombshell. Reed hastings keynote speech to the ccsa, march 4, 2014. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that. Reed hastings biography childhood, life achievements.
After pure software, hastings spent two years thinking about how to avoid. In 1991, he founded pure software, which made tools for software developers. Click through to read the bio of reed hastings, founder and ceo of netflix. Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the california state board. In 1991 he founded his first successful venture, pure software, which went. However due to the increasing bureaucracy hastings decided to leave the company. Reed hastings generally travels from san francisco, ca, usa and can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other. Reed hastings on the future of netflix the motley fool. Director, facebook reed hastings cofounded netflix in 1997. As hastings took the stage for a keynote conversation that was. Last year, he was the keynote speaker at the 2014 annual ca charter schools conference. A former member of the california state board of education, hastings is an advocate for education reform through charter schools. Reed hastings directors college 2018 directors college.
Reed hastings, american entrepreneur who was cofounder 1997 and ceo 1998 of the media rental service netflix. The company, which produced products to troubleshoot software, grew rapidly over the ensuing years. Reed hastings was an entrepreneur at heart and had always wanted to start his own company. John is a senior editor focusing on investigations. Netflix ceo reed hastings delivers his international keynote at rts cambridge 2019, chaired by kirsty wark. While ceo and founder reed hastings is a prominent member of the silicon valley tech community, hes largely elusive to the general public. The year was 2011, and the netflix cofounder and ceo had just made a decision that cost him. Netflix ceo reed hastings makes the forbes 400 for the first time. In 1991, he left the company to start his own troubleshoot software business. Reed hastings was born in boston, massachusetts on october 8, 1960, to joan and wilmot hastings.
Acquisitions abound, as content has taken on the role as one of the primary assets for consumer engagement and loyalty in. Netflix grew to one million subscribers in less than four years, and, as of april 2019, had over 148 million paid subscriptions worldwide, including 60 million in the united states. The company has been ranked multiple times as number one in customer satisfaction across all ecommercebased businesses by independent researcher foresee results. But netflix, under the leadership of reed hastings, can count already two to its name how we watch. Reed hastings directors college 2020 directors college. Since its launch in the late 1990s, netflix has been recognized as a revolutionary company. Netflix ceo reed hastings gives a keynote address at the 2016. Reed hastings is the founder and ceo of netflix, a video streaming service with more than 90 million subscribers. Reed hastings was born on october 8, 1960 in boston, massachusetts, usa as wilmot reed hastings jr. Invent in las vegas this week, from reed hastings appearing in the opening keynote, to a packed series of ten talks by netflix management and engineers, and our very own expo booth.
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