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Born on October 8, 1960.
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Attended Bowdoin College for 4 years.
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Attended Standorf in California.
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His first job was at Adaptive Technology, where he worked under Audrey MacLean and made a tool for debugging software.
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This is when Hastimgs first founded Netflix, when it was just a tape/cassette renting service.
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Hastings belived that internet television would be huge in the following years, and he was corrcet. This brought his company big business.
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Experienced a big setback when they rised their prices up by 60% and experienced lashback from their customers.
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When their movie rental business wasn't working, they announced they would be spinning it off under a new name; Qwikster. That didn't work out too well for them, and he was asked to resign.
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Reed Hasting's Net Worth is $1.79 USS Billion.
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Reed Hasting is currently alive and well, and still in charge of the operations at Netflix.
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People have said Hasting's is hard working and forgiving, which can come back to haunt him at times.
