NetFlix
founded 1997
Person TypeInstitution
1892 Stockholm, Sweden - 1944 Los Gatos, California
1886 London, Ontario, Canada – 1951 Beverly Hills, California
1867 Laupheim, Germany – 1939 Los Angeles, California
BiographyNetflix is a streaming service and production company, headquartered in Los Gatos, California with international offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. While the service caters to millions of subscribers worldwide today, the company’s beginnings were more modest. Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded the company in 1997 (in a small community in Santa Cruz County, California) as a way to sell and rent DVDs via mail. In 2007, the company began offering streaming and on-demand films. In 2013 they began creating their own content.