If Apple Inc. (AAPL) Were To Initiate A CEO Search, Who Are Your Nominations?

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Since Steve Jobs revolutionized the way we communicate, Netflix is soon to become one of the leading applications used on his iPhones and iPads thanks to streaming video, pioneered by Mr. Hastings.

Not only does Hastings (5 years younger than the late Steve Jobs) have the kind of vision and experience that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) could use to guide their technology in the early 21st century, he heads a company that is within the grasp of Apple’s $130 billion cash war chest, as Netflix is currently trading at about a $9 billion market cap.  Considering how difficult it would be to find a visionary software engineer and what they would have to compensate him or her, they would be buying a CEO who could work for $1 dollar a year with the compensation heavily tied to stock price.

As I ended my recent column Why Netflix Will Continue To Dominate & Confound Bears, “Hastings knows what he’s sitting on; however, Apple could use a visionary CEO who is also an accomplished Software Engineer at this point.  It could realistically become tempting to Apple.”

I do not know of a CEO search being called for at Apple, but if they have another underwhelming quarter anything could happen.  For a man of Hastings’ background in technology, one might suspect that the job of Apple CEO might be a tempting opportunity to steer the industry in a more wide-reaching way.  There has been a great deal of grumbling as of late regarding Apple’s lack of innovation.

It would be interesting to see Hastings on the stage introducing future generations of computer technology.

The article If Apple Were To Initiate A CEO Search, Who Are Your Nominations? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Scott Ryan Anderson.

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