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Netflix began by mailing DVDs

Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded it in 1997

Netflix was founded in 1997 in California by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a DVD-rental-by-mail service. It launched streaming in 2007 and began producing its own original series a few years after that.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded it in 1997. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.