{"id":3242,"date":"2025-08-29T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:15:26","slug":"tdibh-netflix-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/tdibh-netflix-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Business History: Netflix Founded"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>August 29 1997: Netflix was founded in Los Gatos, CA. They mailed DVDs in little red envelopes, with a huge collection of movies and tv shows to choose from. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Ten years later, in 2007, Netflix started offering subscribers the option to stream movies online.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>Sources:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/chris-matyszczyk\/6-famous-companies-that-launched-in-summer-so-don-t-take-time-off.html\">6 Famous Companies That Launched in Summer (so Don&#8217;t Take Time Off), INC<\/a>\u00a0;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Netflix-Inc\"> Netflix, Brittanica<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Read more from the Goizueta Business Library collection:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.45.24-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3244\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.45.24-AM-186x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.45.24-AM-186x300.png 186w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.45.24-AM.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discovere.emory.edu\/discovere:default_scope:01EMORY_ALMA51434930010002486\">The Netflix Effect: Technology and Entertainment in the 21st Century<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.51.44-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3245\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.51.44-AM-188x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.51.44-AM-188x300.png 188w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.51.44-AM.png 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discovere.emory.edu\/discovere:default_scope:01EMORY_ALMA21373156760002486\">Netflix Nostalgia : Streaming the Past on Demand<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 29 1997: Netflix was founded in Los Gatos, CA. They mailed DVDs in little red envelopes, with a huge collection of movies and tv shows to choose from. \u00a0Ten years later, in 2007, Netflix started offering subscribers the option to stream movies online.\u00a0 Sources:\u00a06 Famous Companies That Launched in Summer (so Don&#8217;t Take Time <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/tdibh-netflix-founded\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1456,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-02-at-11.51.44-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}