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Reed Hastings

Streaming Executive

Citation Formats

General Reference

Film and Media Atlas. "Reed Hastings." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/reed-hastings.

APA Style

Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Reed Hastings. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/reed-hastings

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-reed-hastings,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Reed Hastings},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/reed-hastings},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

An American entrepreneur who co-founded Netflix, Inc. in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail rental service. Crediting YouTube's own rise for prompting his shift in strategy, Hastings led Netflix's launch of a video streaming service in 2007, and the company later commissioned House of Cards (2013), one of the first major original series released in a full-season binge format, moving Netflix from a distributor of others' content into a producer of its own.

Facts

Birth Year

1960 1

Nationality

American 1

Defining Contribution

Co-founded Netflix (1997) and led its 2007 shift into video streaming, then into original streaming productions with House of Cards (2013). 1

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