Which came first, Instagram or Netflix?
Which came first, Instagram or Netflix?
Netflix
1997 — 13 years before Instagram
Netflix came first, by 13 years. Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded a DVD rental-by-post company.
Side by side
| Netflix | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2010 | 1997 |
| Date | 2010-10-06 | 1997-08-29 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The app launched on iOS. | Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded a DVD rental-by-post company. |
Instagram launched in October 2010 as an iPhone-only app and took 25,000 users on its first day. Facebook bought it in April 2012 for about $1 billion when it had thirteen employees and no revenue. It is four years younger than Twitter and six years older than TikTok.
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, Instagram or Netflix?
- Netflix, by 13 years — 1997 against 2010.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
- When did Netflix start?
- 1997. Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded a DVD rental-by-post company.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)