Young, fresh-faced graduates stepping into offices for the first time probably don’t expect the top boss to pay them much mind while they’re at the bottom of the totem pole. But the opposite was true for billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings. When he was just a newcomer to the workforce, his boss would even secretly wash his huge pile of dirty coffee cups for him.
“This was my first job out of graduate school,” Hastings recently said in an interview with Graham Bensinger. “I was a programmer in a 30-person startup, and working hard and doing all-nighters and drinking lots of coffee. And then my coffee cups would pile up. And every week or so the janitor would clean them all, and I’d have 20 new cups, and [the] cycle would go on.”
