Which came first, Amazon or Netflix?
Amazon came first, by 3 years. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
Side by side
| Amazon | Netflix | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1994 | 1997 |
| Date | 1994-07-05 | 1997-08-29 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state. | Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded a DVD rental-by-post company. |
Amazon
Amazon was incorporated on 5 July 1994, originally as Cadabra, and the website opened in July 1995 selling only books. The 1994 incorporation date is used here because it is the company's own founding date; if you mean the shop, 1995 is the answer. Either way it predates Google by three or four years and eBay by about a year.
Netflix
Netflix was founded in August 1997, a year before Google, and posted DVDs for a decade before streaming launched in January 2007. The famous origin story — Hastings founding it after a $40 late fee on Apollo 13 — has been called a useful myth by co-founder Marc Randolph. Blockbuster declined to buy the company for $50 million in 2000.
Common questions
- Which came first, Amazon or Netflix?
- Amazon, by 3 years — 1994 against 1997.
- When did Amazon start?
- 1994. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
- When did Netflix start?
- 1997. Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded a DVD rental-by-post company.
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Sources
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