# Reed Hastings **Reed Hastings** co-founded **Netflix** in 1997, ran it as chief executive for a quarter-century, and is now its chairman. Since **May 28, 2025** he has also sat on the board of directors of [[Anthropic]], appointed by the company's Long-Term Benefit Trust alongside [[Dario Amodei]], Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi and Jay Kreps. He is one of the largest individual Democratic donors in American technology. In 2024 he gave **$7 million** to the pro-Harris super PAC Future Forward. ## Political money this site has traced | Date | Amount | Recipient | Document | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-08-20 | **$1,000,000.00** | [[Lone Star Rising PAC]] — the anti-Paxton super PAC in [[TX-Sen-2026]] | FEC Form 3X, file 2027513 | The Texas contribution is itemised on Line 11(a)(i) of the committee's third-quarter report, with his occupation given as **Chairman** and his employer as **Netflix**, and was first disclosed on **October 15, 2026**. ## Why he matters here The wiki's coverage of AI money runs mostly through the deregulatory side — the [[Fairshake PAC]] network and [[Leading the Future]]. Hastings is on the other side of that argument twice over: he sits on the board of the AI company whose public position is that the technology needs binding rules, and his political giving goes to Democrats. His $1 million into a Texas Senate race is the second Anthropic-connected seven-figure contribution this site has traced in 2026, after [[Dario Amodei]]'s $1,000,000.00 to [[Public First]] — and unlike that one, it has nothing to do with AI policy. ## See also - [[Anthropic]] · [[Dario Amodei]] · [[Public First]] · [[Artificial Intelligence]] - [[Lone Star Rising PAC]] · [[TX-Sen-2026]] · [[Chris Larsen]] · [[Super PACs]]