Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr., born 8 October 1960 in Boston, co-founded Netflix with Marc Randolph in August 1997 and served as CEO until January 2023. He has since become Executive Chairman.
His Parents
Father: Wilmot Reed Hastings Sr. — Boston lawyer.
Mother: Joan Amory Loomis — homemaker, from an old Boston Brahmin family.
His Wife: Patty Quillin
Patricia "Patty" Quillin Hastings — Reed's wife; an active philanthropist and progressive political donor.
Their Children
The couple have two children; kept private.
The Hastings Family Tree at a Glance
Parents: Wilmot Reed Hastings Sr. (Boston lawyer); Joan Loomis (Boston Brahmin family).
Wife: Patricia "Patty" Quillin Hastings.
Children: Two children (private).
Reed Hastings:
- Born 8 October 1960, Boston, MA
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
- Bowdoin College (BA Mathematics, 1983)
- US Marine Corps training; transferred to Peace Corps (Swaziland, 1983–1985, mathematics teacher)
- Stanford (MS Computer Science, 1988)
- Founded Pure Software (1991, sold to Rational Software 1997)
- Co-founded Netflix with Marc Randolph, August 1997
- CEO of Netflix (1999 – January 2023)
- Executive Chairman, Netflix since 2023
What the Hastings Family Story Teaches Us
A Boston-lawyer father. A Boston-Brahmin mother. A son who taught math in Swaziland through the Peace Corps as a 23-year-old before Stanford. A wife who has been a leading progressive political donor in her own right. Two children kept entirely private.
For every family — large or small, famous or otherwise — the Hastings story carries the same lesson. Sometimes the most-shaping years of a family member's life happen far from home. Reed's two years in Swaziland — completely outside his American privilege bubble — shaped his approach to building Netflix. Write down the formative years lived elsewhere. They are real entries on the tree.
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