Netflix is a multinational media company. It is one of the leading digital entertainment companies worldwide. It was founded in California in the year 1997. It started as a DVD-on-mail service. Users could rent DVDs of movies and other series and get them on mail. With the rise of on-demand streaming media, Netflix adapted to the change. They started providing the on-demand video and media service in 2007. It is a subscription service since then. Netflix later on added films and television shows to the service.

Initially, Netflix was available online in the US. it expanded its streaming to Canada by 2010 and to other 190 countries by 2016. It has a follower-base of around 137 million subscribers. The service which initially started with providing films and television shows came up with ‘Netflix Original’ films and series in 2016. This increased the number of subscribers by a large margin.

The founders of Netflix are Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Both of them were pioneers in their own field. Hastings was also the founder of Pure Software and later on went to sell it for an enormous amount of $700 million. Marc had co-founded MircoWarehouse, which was a computer mail order company. They founded Netflix on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California. Netflix is now headquartered in Los Gatos.

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