At a glance
- Product
- 10,000+ employees
- 1997
- Public
- Los Gatos, United States
- 29 offices · 25 countries
About
Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a DVD-by-mail rental service and started streaming in 2007. It is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.
It streams series, films, documentaries, live events and games to members in more than 190 countries, and produces original content with studios around the world. Its own content delivery network, Open Connect, serves traffic from inside internet providers' networks.
Netflix is known for its engineering culture - freedom and responsibility, highly aligned and loosely coupled teams - and for open source tools from its microservices and chaos engineering work, such as Chaos Monkey.