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Reed Hastings

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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
Connections

Associated With

Netflix, Organizations
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Milestones Credited

Source Reed Hastings - Wikipedia
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  • Reed Hastings, career section
    He credits YouTube for his shift in strategy to developing a video streaming service.
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  • Associated With: Streaming Video
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Reed Hastings - Wikipedia
  • Reed Hastings, infobox
  • Milestones Credited: Netflix Streaming Launch, Reed Hastings, career section
    He credits YouTube for his shift in strategy to developing a video streaming service.
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