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Reed Hastings

1960 - Today

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Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Netflix, Inc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reed Hastings has received more than 5,683,943 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Reed Hastings is the 380th most popular businessperson (down from 142nd in 2019), the 4,494th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,580th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Reed Hastings ranks 380 out of 847Before him are Naguib Sawiris, Susanne Klatten, Franklin Clarence Mars, Mikhail Prokhorov, Johann Carolus, and Andrew Tate. After him are Jakob Nielsen, Gaston Gallimard, Dieter Zetsche, Albert Ballin, Armand Hammer, and Mohammed bin Hammam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Reed Hastings ranks 155Before him are Angélique Kidjo, Adam Clayton, Yu Hua, Uwe Bein, Franz Welser-Möst, and Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. After him are Eric Betzig, Ko Wen-je, Buster Douglas, Igor Sechin, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Rimas Kurtinaitis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Reed Hastings ranks 4,494 out of 20,380Before him are Catherine Hicks (1951), Nathan Lane (1956), Adrienne Rich (1929), Bryce DeWitt (1923), Lorraine Gary (1937), and Andrew Tate (1986). After him are Jared Padalecki (1982), Tom Welling (1977), Daryl Hall (1946), Betty Buckley (1947), Martin Johnson Heade (1819), and Brett Cullen (1956).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Reed Hastings ranks 116Before him are Maxwell Perkins (1884), Tommy Mottola (1949), Ray Dalio (1949), Cyrus West Field (1819), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), and Andrew Tate (1986). After him are Armand Hammer (1898), Malcom McLean (1913), David Geffen (1943), Katharine Graham (1917), Robert Monroe (1915), and Roy Raymond (1947).