Reed Hastings His first company, Pure Software, was launched in 1991 and acquired just before Netflix was launched. Reed served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004 and is ...

Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997 and in 1991, he founded Pure Software, which made tools for software developers. After a 1995 I.P.O., and several acquisitions, Pure was acquired by ...