In 2000, a CEO with this first name thankfully failed to sell a 49% stake in his company to Blockbuster.  
First name's pronounced the same.  One man with this first name is currently teaching a class at Stanford on whatever the hell "Blitzscaling" is.  A CEO with this first name developed the Purifier debugger used to debug Mosaic and founded a company with Marc Randolph.  The earlier mentioned man with this first name refers to himself as the "Ubernode" and wrote the essay "Disrupting the Diploma" that ties in nicely with his company's acquisition of Lynda.com.  In 2011, a CEO with this first name unsuccessfully tried to split his company into two, with one of the new companies being called (*) Qwikster.  A man with this first name was the most prominent founder of a company bought by Microsoft in June, 2016 for $26 billion.  In 2000, a CEO with this first name thankfully failed to sell a 49% stake in his company to Blockbuster.  For 10 points, give this shared first name of LinkedIn founder Mr. Hoffmann and Netflix CEO Mr. Hastings.
First name's pronounced the same.  One man with this first name is currently teaching a class at Stanford on whatever the hell "Blitzscaling" is.  
Reed [or Reid] 