Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whakatuhia a Netflix i te Akuhata 29, 1997, i Scotts Valley, California, na Marc Randolph raua ko Reed Hastings. I mahi a Randolph hei kaiwhakahaere hokohoko mo te kamupene a Hastings, ko Pure Atria. Ko Randolph tetahi o nga kaiwhakarewa o MicroWarehouse, he kamupene tono mēra rorohiko, ana i muri mai ka whakamahia e Borland International hei perehitini tuarua mo te tauhokohoko. I hokona e Hastings, he kaiputaiao rorohiko me te kaikauwhau, Pure Atria ki te Rational Software Corporation i te 1997 mo te $ 700 miriona i te mea koinei te hoko nui rawa atu i roto i te hitori o Silicon Valley. I puta mai te whakaaro mo Netflix i a raatau e haere ana i waenga i o raatau kaainga i Santa Cruz me te tari matua o Pure Atria i Sunnyvale i a raatau e tatari ana kia whakaaetia e nga kaiwhakahaere a te kawanatanga te whakakotahitanga, ahakoa he maha nga whakamarama rereke a Hasting mo te ahua o te whakaaro. I whakangao a Hastings i te $ 2.5 miriona ki te moni tiimata mo Netflix. I miharo a Randolph ki te kamupene e-tauhokohoko hou a Amazon, a, i hiahia ia ki te rapu i nga momo taonga kawe nui hei hoko ma te Ipurangi ma te whakamahi i te tauira rite. I whakaarohia e ratou, i whakakahoretia hoki nga rīpene VHS he nui rawa te utu ki te rokiroki, he uaua hoki ki te tuku. I a rātau e rongo ana mō ngā DVD, i whakarewahia tuatahitia ki Te Hononga o Amerika i te 31 o Poutu-te-rangi 1997, ka whakamātau rātau i te ariā o te hoko DVD, te reti DVD rānei mā te mēra, mā te tuku kōpae ki te whare o Hastings i Santa Cruz. I te taenga mai o te kōpae, ka whakatau rātau ki te whai i te $16 piriona tāra i te umanga hoko ataata kāinga me te umanga riihi. He maha nga korero a Hastings e kii ana i whakatau ia ki te tiimata i a Netflix i muri i tana whiu $ 40 i te toa Blockbuster mo te roa ki te whakahoki mai i tetahi kape o Apollo 13. Engari he korero apocryphal tenei i hangaia e ia me Randolph ki te whakamarama i te tauira pakihi me te hihiri o te kamupene. I whakarewahia a Netflix i te Paenga-whawha 14, 1998, hei toa reti DVD ipurangi tuatahi o te ao, me nga kaimahi 30 anake me nga taitara 925 e waatea ana, tata tonu ki te raarangi katoa o nga DVD i taarua i taua wa, na roto i te tauira utu-mo-rahi me nga reeti me nga waa e rite ana ki tana hoa whakataetae pereki-me-moata, Blockbuster.  Pātai: He aha te tau i tīmata ai a Netflix?
1997 Ko te tau