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    Launched on January 16, 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD‑by‑mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 269.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of April 2024.

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  3. 3 days ago · Netflix, Inc. is a media company based in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by American entrepreneurs Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. The company has been pushing the envelope as a content deliverer since its inception. Netflix first disrupted the Blockbuster video-rental model; it then took.

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    Hastings was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Wilmot Reed Hastings Sr. was an attorney for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon administration, and his mother Joan Amory Loomis was a debutante from a Boston Brahmin family who was repulsed by the world of high society and taught her children to disdain it. His matern...

    Founding of Pure Software

    Hastings' first job was at Adaptive Technology, where he created a tool for debugging software. He met Audrey MacLean in 1990 when she was CEO at Adaptive Corp.In 2007, Hastings told CNN, "From her, I learned the value of focus. 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 to his first company, Pure Software, which produced products to troubleshoot software. The company's growth proved chall...

    Founder of Netflix

    In 1997, Hastings and former Pure Software employee Marc Randolph co-founded Netflix, offering flat rate movie rental-by-mail to customers in the US by combining two emerging technologies; DVDs, which were much easier to send as mail than VHS-cassettes, and a website from which to order them, instead of a paper catalogue. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Netflix has amassed a collection of 100,000 titles and more than 100 million subscribers. Hastings had the idea for Netflix after he...

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    Hastings was on the board of Microsoftfrom 2007 to 2012. He was also on the board of directors of Facebook, Inc. from June 2011 to May 2019.As of September 2016, he was reported to own over US$10 million worth of Facebook shares. Hastings is the majority owner of Powder Mountainski resort in Utah following his $100 million investment in 2023.

    Donor-advised fund

    Hastings opened a donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in 2016 with a $100million contribution. In 2024, he gifted two million of his Netflix shares worth $1.1billion to the foundation.

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    In April 2004, Hastings authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed advocating the expensing of stock options.

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    In August 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that Hastings had donated $1 million to a committee formed to support California State Superintendent of Schools Jack O'Connell's candidacy for Governor of Californiain 2010. In April 2009, Hastings donated $251,491.03 to Budget Reform Now, a coalition supporting California Propositions 1A to 1F. Hastings supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. In 2021, Hastings gave $3 million to defeat the campaign to recall Gavin Newsom...

    Hastings lives in Santa Cruz, California.He is married to Patricia Ann Quillin and has two children. He appeared in a front-page article in USA Today in 1995, posing on his Porsche. He considers that immature now and has said that if he ever appears on the front page of USA Today again it will "not [be] on the hood of a Porsche, but I would [pose] ...

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  4. At Netflix, we want to entertain the world. Whatever your taste, and no matter where you live, we give you access to best-in-class TV series, documentaries, feature films and games. Our members control what they want to watch, when they want it, in one simple subscription. We’re streaming in more than 30 languages and 190 countries, because ...

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  5. Netflix. Netflix, Inc. is an American entertainment services provider in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. As of April 2019, Netflix had over 148 million paid subscriptions worldwide, including 60 million in the United States, and over 154 million subscriptions total ...

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