
Netflix founder and executive chair Reed Hastings has given two million shares of the streaming company, currently worth about $1.1 billion (£866m), to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
On January 24, Hastings disposed of the shares, which were given as a gift to an unidentified entity, per a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The transaction code on the statement of change in beneficial ownership was marked “G", indicating a “bona fide gift”, according to the SEC.