One of the key things about Netflix was that it had a recommendation system known as Cinematch, which not only got viewers to remain attached to the service, by creating a switching cost, but it also brought out those movies which were underrated so that customers could view those movies too from their recommendations.

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.

The companys primary business is its subscription-based streaming service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television series, including those produced in-house.

As of April 2020, Netflix had over 193 million paid subscriptions worldwide, including 73 million in the United States.

It is available worldwide except in the following: mainland China (due to local restrictions), Syria, North Korea, and Crimea (due to U.S.

The company also has offices in France, United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, the Netherlands, India, Japan, and South Korea.

Today, the company produces and distributes content from countries all over the globe.

The company expanded internationally in 2010 with streaming available in Canada, 19 followed by Latin America and the Caribbean.

Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2013, debuting its first series House of Cards.

On July 10, 2020, Netflix became the largest entertainmentmedia company by market cap.

Randolph worked as a marketing director for Hastings company, Pure Atria.

Randolph had co-founded MicroWarehouse, a computer mail-order company; Borland International later employed him as vice president of marketing.

Hastings, a computer scientist and mathematician, sold Pure Atria to Rational Software Corporation in 1997 for 700 million in what was then the biggest acquisition in Silicon Valley history.

The two came up with the idea for Netflix when commuting between their homes in Santa Cruz and Pure Atrias headquarters in Sunnyvale while waiting for government regulators to approve the merger, 32 although Hastings has given several different explanations for how the idea came about.

Hastings and Randolph considered and rejected VHS tapes as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship.

When they heard about DVDs, first introduced in the United States on March 24, 1997, 35 they tested the concept of selling or renting DVDs by mail by mailing a compact disc to Hastings house in Santa Cruz.

When the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the 16 billion home-video sales and rental industry.

Hastings is often quoted saying that he decided to start Netflix after being fined 40 at a Blockbuster store for being late to return a copy of Apollo 13, but he and Randolph designed this apocryphal story to explain the companys business model and motivation.

They proposed that Netflix, which would be renamed as Blockbuster.com, would handle the online business, while Blockbuster would take care of the DVDs, making them less dependent on the U.S.

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However, sales of DVD players finally took off as they became more affordable, selling for about 200 around Thanksgiving time, becoming one of that years most popular Christmas gifts.

By early 2002, Netflix saw a huge increase in their subscription business.

After incurring substantial losses during its first few years, Netflix posted its first profit during the fiscal year 2003, earning US6.5 million profit on revenues of US272 million.

In 2005, 35,000 different films were available, and Netflix shipped 1 million DVDs out every day.

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The original idea was a Netflix box that could download movies overnight, and be ready to watch the next day.

By 2005, they had acquired movie rights and designed the box and service, and were ready to go public with it.

But after discovering YouTube, and witnessing how popular streaming services were despite the lack of high-definition content, the concept of using a hardware device was scrapped and replaced with a streaming concept instead, a project that was completed in 2007.

On October 1, 2006, Netflix offered a 1,000,000 prize to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10.

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But when they started to offer streaming content for free to its subscribers in 2007, it could offer no more than about 1000 movies and TV-shows, just 1 compared to its more than 100,000 different DVD titles.

Yet as the popularity kept growing, the number of titles available for streaming was increasing as well and had reached 12,000 movies and shows in June 2009.

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