7 Best Quotes from Reed Hastings, Co-Founder of Netflix
Below is a Quick Bio and the 7 Best Quotes from Reed Hastings:
Quick Bio
Reed Hastings is an American businessman and co-founder of Netflix. Hastings was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1983, he earned a bachelor degree in Mathematics from Bowdoin College. Following college, he joined the Peace Corps and taught math at a high school in Africa for two years. After the Peace Corps, Hastings earned a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Stanford.
Hastings started working at Adaptive Technology before founding his first company in 1991. This company, Pure Software, was taken public in 1995 by Morgan Stanley. Then in 1997, Hastings co-founded Netflix with his former employee, Marc Randolph. Netflix has grown to over 100,000 titles and 100 million subscribers.
Today, Hastings is worth $4.1 billion.
7 Best Quotes
- “I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way”
- “Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly”
- “With failures, you learn one of 99 things to avoid. So they are not that useful. I think it is more useful to learn from others’ failures”
