Founder of Pure Software and Netflix, and its current CEO. Serves on the Board of Directors of Microsoft.
His great-grandfather bankrolled an experimental physics lab in Tuxedo Park that supported the work of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and Ernest Lawrence.
Maternal great-grandfather, Alfred Loomis, was a Yale and Harvard educated Wall Street tycoon who made a fortune financing electric utilities.
Mother was a Wellesley grad. His father was magna cum laude at Harvard.
During the Depression his great-grandfather backed a yachting syndicate that competed in the America's Cup.
Graduated from Stanford University with a computer science degree.
Received 70% of Netflix's shares when the company was founded with $2 million from the $750 million sale of his software company.
His great-grandfather led a group of businessmen who bought much of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for use as a personal playground.