Reed Hastings is the Chairman of the board of directors of Netflix. He co-founded Netflix in 1997 and served as CEO for 25 years. Prior to Netflix Reed founded Pure Software, which he took public and sold in 1997. He is a board member of Bloomberg and Anthropic, both private companies. As a passion, Reed purchased Powder Mountain and is leading the expansion of the private real estate as CEO. Reed is an active educational philanthropist and was President of the California State Board of Education. He is currently on the board of several educational non-profits including KIPP, City Fund, and the Charter School Growth Fund. He received a B.A. in math from Bowdoin College in 1983, and an M.S.C.S. in artificial intelligence from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the Peace Corps as a high school math teacher.