Reed Hastings, the man who took a small, ordinary annoyance and turned it into a business that made video rentals obsolete. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons We’ve all been there. You return back something a little late, you get hit with a fee that feels wildly out of proportion to the
Reed Hastings, the man who took a small, ordinary annoyance and turned it into a business that made video rentals obsolete. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons We’ve all been there. You return back something a little late, you get hit with a fee that feels wildly out of proportion to the offence, and you spend the rest of the day muttering about it. Most of us just move on, but Reed Hastings built Netflix. Netflix’s story of how it got started is one of those rare origin stories that are actually true and, frankly, more interesting than the version most people have heard.It wasn’t just about being annoyedNow here’s the thing about the famous late fee story. It wasn’t the fee that started a billion-dollar company; it was what the fee stood for.Going to
