netflix timeline By pdimandi Oct 8, 1960 Reed Hastings is born Feb 4, 1978 high school 1983 Reed Hastings goes to Bowdoin College 1988 Reed Hastings changes school's and goes to Stanford 1990 Hastings gets his first job at adaptive corp and creates a tool for debugging software 1991 Reed Hastings leaves Adaptive Corp and starts his first company Pure Software 1991 reed hasting's get's married 1996 pure software merges with atria 1996 In 1997, the combined company, Pure Atria, was acquired by Rational Software Jul 10, 1997 characteristics Aug 29, 1997 Netflix is founded Apr 14, 1998 Netflix launches website 1999 netflix raises 30 mil in venture capitalist 1999 netflix launches monthly subscription content 2000 netflix offers itself to blockbuster but they refuse
