Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An kafa Netflix a ranar 29 ga Agusta, 1997, a cikin Scotts Valley, California, ta Marc Randolph da Reed Hastings. Randolph ya yi aiki a matsayin darektan tallace-tallace na kamfanin Hastings, Pure Atria. Randolph ya kasance mai haɗin gwiwa na MicroWarehouse, kamfanin sayar da kwamfuta, kuma daga baya Borland International ta ɗauke shi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban tallace-tallace. Hastings, masanin kimiyyar kwamfuta kuma masanin lissafi, ya sayar da Pure Atria ga Rational Software Corporation a cikin 1997 don dala miliyan 700 a cikin abin da ya kasance a lokacin shine mafi girman saye a tarihin Silicon Valley. Sun zo da ra'ayin Netflix yayin da suke tafiya tsakanin gidajensu a Santa Cruz da kuma hedkwatar Pure Atria a Sunnyvale yayin da suke jiran masu kula da gwamnati su amince da hadewar, kodayake Hasting ya ba da bayani daban-daban game da yadda aka kirkiro ra'ayin.Hastings ya saka dala miliyan 2.5 a cikin kuɗin farawa don Netflix. Randolph yana sha'awar kamfanin e-commerce na Amazon kuma yana so ya sami manyan nau'ikan kayan da za a iya siyarwa ta hanyar Intanet ta amfani da irin wannan samfurin. Sun yi la'akari kuma sun ƙi kaset ɗin VHS saboda tsada sosai don adanawa da ƙarancin jigilar kaya. Sa'ad da suka ji game da DVDs, wanda aka fara gabatar da shi a Amirka a ranar 31 ga Maris, 1997, suka gwada ra'ayin sayar da DVD ko kuma yin hayar DVD ta hanyar wasiƙa, ta wajen aika da faifai zuwa gidan Hastings a Santa Cruz. Sa'ad da faifan ya iso babu lahani, sai suka tsai da shawara su soma sayar da bidiyon da ake yin haya da kuma sayar da su a kasuwa da ta kai dala biliyan 16. Ana yawan ambaton Hastings yana cewa ya yanke shawarar fara Netflix bayan an ci shi tarar $ 40 a wani shagon Blockbuster saboda jinkirin dawo da kwafin Apollo 13. Amma wannan labarin ne wanda shi da Randolph suka tsara don bayyana tsarin kasuwancin kamfanin da kuma motsawa.An kaddamar da Netflix a ranar 14 ga Afrilu, 1998, a matsayin kantin sayar da DVD na farko a duniya, tare da ma'aikata 30 kawai da lakabi 925 da ke samuwa, wanda kusan kusan dukkanin kundin DVD ne a cikin bugawa a lokacin, ta hanyar tsarin biyan kuɗi tare da kudaden da kwanakin da suka dace da kama da tubali-da-mortar abokin hamayyarsa, Blockbuster.  Tambaya: A wace shekara aka fara Netflix?
Shekarar 1997