Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings, cofounder and CEO of Netflix, revolutionized how the world consumes content.Hastings cofounded Netflix in 1995, the same year he sold his first company, Pure Software, to Rational Software.The video-streaming service offers TV shows and films, as well as original content, to 139 million members globally.Netflix originally operated as a DVD subscription service, but began streaming content in 2007.A giving pledge member, he founded the Hastings Fund and pledged $100 million to children's education.