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Hastings is the reason binge watching is part of our society’s lexicon.

HOW IT BEGAN Before he became one of the most successful innovators of the 21st century, Hastings actually worked as a door-to-door salesman, and what he sold wasn’t at all related to movies. He sold vacuum cleaners! While it was originally supposed to be a summer job before college, Hastings discovered that he really liked selling vacuum cleaners and put off his studies for a year while he learned how to become a better salesman. It was only after spending an entire year selling Rainbow vacuum cleaners that Hastings finally moved to Maine and enrolled in a mathematics program at Bowdoin College. Mathematics caught Hastings’ attention because of how limitless the field was. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1983.

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