Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings Jr. is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Netflix, which went public in 2002. He co-founded Netflix in 1997 after he sold his first company, Pure Software, to Rational Software. He stepped down as co-CEO of Netflix in January 2023.

Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He is currently on the board of several educational organizations, including KIPP, Pahara, and the Charter School Growth Fund.