Amos Hostetter is an American businessman and he has an estimated net wroth of $3.6 billion. He is the son of the late Amos Hostetter who is a prominent trader at Commodities Corporation and Hayden Stone. He attended the Pingry School and graduated in 1954. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Amherst College and obtained a M.B.A from Harvard University.

Hostetter founded Continental Cablevision along with his college roommate and fraternity brother, H. Irving Grousbeck in 1963. His success in the business world started when he was able to persuade his former employer to invest in a cable television system in some rural areas of New Jersey. From this humble beginning, Hostetter was able to expand the business under the name "Continental CableVision" which later became the largest private cable company in the US. The company was sold for $11 billion to US West in 1996. Later on, Amos Hostetter bought the company back and it was named to MediaOne. Three years later, AT&T purchased the company for $58 billion.

Amos Hostetter served as the Chairman and CEO of the Continental CableVision. He also served as the chairman of C-SPAN. He currently sits as the Chairman of the Pilot House Associates, LLC, an early-stage investment firm. He is an active philanthropist and donates tens of millions of dollars each year to support the arts and education and fight climate change through his family's Barr Foundation.

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