About Reed Hastings
Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and chairman of Netflix, Inc., which provides the Netflix streaming service. Hastings serves on a number of boards and works with various non-profit organizations. A former president of the California State Board of Education, Hastings is also an advocate for charter schools. Hastings' first job was at Adaptive Technology, where he created a tool for debugging software. Hastings created an internal culture guide for Netflix by meeting with employees to discuss the company's culture. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way." Hastings left Adaptive Technology in 1991 to lay the foundation for his first company, Pure Software, which produced products to troubleshoot software. In August 2009, Hastings posted this internal culture guide publicly online, and it eventually became a pre-employment screening tool that dissuaded incompatible people from applying.
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