Reed Hastings Sold A Booming Company He Was Unhappy With To Found Netflix. Here, We Follow His Road To Success.

Want to know how to start a global streaming platform, well-known throughout the world? Reed Hasting did this by following a few principles. Today Netflix is onethe most well-known companies globally with a turnover of 20 billion dollars a year.

It wasn’t easy at first. He and his co-founder have been eating dirt for years. When the wind spun in his direction, Reed became the best in the streaming market.

Before becoming one of the few billionaire entrepreneurs (currently his net worth is around $ 2.3 billion), Hastings hiked halfway across Africa and then sold vacuum cleaners door-to-door.

Despite this and all the difficulties encountered, he still succeeded. Thanks to some lessons that he has learned that we will share with you. Read on as I reveal these lessons. First, you need to know a little about his life. It is a continuous twist, which is the reason it is worth telling.

Reed Hastings has also written a book, I am sure with his character, he will become an icon in this entrepreneurial era.

A LIFE-CHANGING JOURNEY THROUGH AFRICA

Reed was born on October 8, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent the first years of his life in the suburbs of the US metropolis.

He wandered around the United States for a while with his family, who settled in Maine. Here he graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick.

So far his life is as normal as other American boys. This is when he had some choices to make, of a different in nature. He wasn’t sure what he wanted.

First, he tried a military career. He enlisted in the Marine Corps. But this experience lasted just six weeks.

“They weren’t very stimulating activities, but they gave me the opportunity to reflect on my role. So I decided to apply for enlistment in the Peace Corps and left the Marines.”

Reed has shared.

He stayed in the Peace Corps for two years. Mostly in Swaziland teaching mathematics.

Swaziland is what is known today as eSwatini: it is a very small independent state in southeast Africa.

This experience changed Hastings who was 20 years old at the time: from a human and a professional point of view.

“It was a very interesting and satisfying experience. Once you’ve hitchhiked across Africa with just $ 10 in your pocket, being an entrepreneur won’t be that hard at all.”

Can you blame him?

Following that experience, his first job was as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman.

Yes, the current CEO of Netflix started his “career” as a door-to-door salesman.

Hastings never denied he did that job, indeed, a few years ago talking about it he confided that: “I liked it a lot because it allowed you to meet a lot of different people”