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Reed Hastings’ Mountainhead

Since stepping down as C.E.O. three years ago, Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings has largely devoted himself to philanthropy and Powder Mountain—his Utah ski resort that now includes an ambitious public art park and is changing the very notion of a mountain town.

Reed Hastings
"I wrote a whole book for Netflix on freedom and responsibility and giving people a brief—in this case, making a reflective place where the pieces are in conversation with the mountain—and the money, and then letting them go," says Reed Hastings. Photo: Wolter Peeters/Fairfax Media/Getty Images
Mark Healy
January 2, 2026

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Since founding Netflix in 1997, Reed Hastings has had plenty of opportunities—and no shortage of invitations—to start collecting art. But it’s only now, three years after ascending from C.E.O. to executive chairman, that Hastings has gotten into art in a big and rather visible way: creating an art park on Utah’s Powder Mountain, the ski resort he acquired soon after stepping back from day-to-day management of the company he’d led for 25 years. The Powder Art Foundation is accessible to the public year round—by foot, by ski, by mountain bike.