Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings donating $120 Million to historically black colleges and universities

[BrokenFiction]

JUST ANNOUNCED: @Netflix co-founder & CEO @ReedHastings and his wife Patty Quillin say they'll give $120M, to be split among Morehouse & @SpelmanCollege & @UNCF — the largest single individual gift ever to support scholarships at historically black colleges and universities.

 

[Deleted member 70788]

I'm not a fan of Billionaires overall, but Reed Hastings seems like a really good guy. I'm sure someone can tell me why I should hate him, but he seems to be low-key awesome:

Netflix’s billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado

Park County hasn’t been able to figure out who is behind a 2,100-acre center for education reform. It’s Reed Hastings.

www.vox.com

"I had a bunch of money, and I didn't really want to buy yachts," Hastings recalled in one interview. "I started looking at education, trying to figure out why our education is lagging when our technology is increasing at great rates and there's great innovation in so many other areas — health care, biotech, information technology, moviemaking. Why not education?"

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[shnurgleton]

that's a lot of money

"I had a bunch of money, and I didn't really want to buy yachts," Hastings recalled in one interview.

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lol

 

[makonero]

good to see all that netflix money going to good use!

 

[Deleted member 70788]

that's a lot of money

lol

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I know I love that quote. The guy spent his early years hitchhiking and teaching in Swaziland, was a part of the Peace Corps, and basically made his wealth straight from software he developed. His biggest downer IMO is that he was on the Facebook board, but he quit that.

 

[Komo]

I'm not a fan of Billionaires overall, but Reed Hastings seems like a really good guy. I'm sure someone can tell me why I should hate him, but he seems to be low-key awesome:

Netflix’s billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado

Park County hasn’t been able to figure out who is behind a 2,100-acre center for education reform. It’s Reed Hastings.

www.vox.com

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Yeah I looked as well and he seems to be a good guy but don't see anything come up about him when I looked.

 

[Col.IndianaLongnuts]

That's amazing

 

[AegonSnake]

he needs to watch the wire. funding universities is good, but they need to get funding to schools in poor districts. it needs to start at literally the pre-k level.

 

[Brinbe]

can't be cynical about that. genuinely a really great gesture and that investment towards education will hopefully go towards helping a lot of people.

 

[Realyst]

That's awesome! Lord knows some of them need the funding.

 

[mattlikewhoa]

This is awesome!

 

[djplaeskool]

This is great, and needed, seeing as the Trump administration/DeVos Ed. Department has largely absconded from their promise to boost funding for HBCUs

 

[RedPanda]

in a country where the government fails, rich people like him are more than welcome and honestly he is a genuine cool dude.

 

[GYODX]

I know I love that quote. The guy spent his early years hitchhiking and teaching in Swaziland, was a part of the Peace Corps, and basically made his wealth straight from software he developed. His biggest downer IMO is that he was on the Facebook board, but he quit that.

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Sounds like an interesting dude.

 

[EDebs1916]

I'm not a fan of Billionaires overall, but Reed Hastings seems like a really good guy. I'm sure someone can tell me why I should hate him, but he seems to be low-key awesome:

Netflix’s billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado

Park County hasn’t been able to figure out who is behind a 2,100-acre center for education reform. It’s Reed Hastings.

www.vox.com

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He's generally really terrible on education. He's the driving money force behind trying to privatize LAUSD and bust the Unions.

Some articles:

Reed Hastings: Destroyer of Public Schools

Reed Hastings, billionaire founder of Netflix, hates public schools. He wants to eliminate school boards and replace them with corporate management. He has spent more than $100 million promoting ch…

dianeravitch.net

Reed Hastings backs school board candidates, but opposes elected school boards

The Netflix co-founder who has donated some of the biggest sums to charter school causes in California since 2011 thinks elected school boards are holding back education progress in the United States.

edsource.org

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

I'm not a fan of Billionaires overall, but Reed Hastings seems like a really good guy. I'm sure someone can tell me why I should hate him, but he seems to be low-key awesome:

Netflix’s billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado

Park County hasn’t been able to figure out who is behind a 2,100-acre center for education reform. It’s Reed Hastings.

www.vox.com

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Yeah, he does. For the most part.

An exception to the rule.

 

[Deleted member 70788]

He's generally really terrible on education. He's the driving money force behind trying to privatize LAUSD and bust the Unions.

Some articles:

Reed Hastings: Destroyer of Public Schools

Reed Hastings, billionaire founder of Netflix, hates public schools. He wants to eliminate school boards and replace them with corporate management. He has spent more than $100 million promoting ch…

dianeravitch.net

Reed Hastings backs school board candidates, but opposes elected school boards

The Netflix co-founder who has donated some of the biggest sums to charter school causes in California since 2011 thinks elected school boards are holding back education progress in the United States.

edsource.org

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There it is.

 

[RastaMentality]

Are Howard Morehouse and Spelman the only HBCUs that exist to these people