Studio History | Netflix — Two Hundred Fifty Dollars a Week in a Scotts Valley Conference Room
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Studio History | Netflix — Two Hundred Fifty Dollars a Week in a Scotts Valley Conference Room
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People treat Netflix as the Los Gatos campus that always streamed a series from an S and P 500 book.
The first book was a rented hotel room.
On 29 August 1997 Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph registered Netflix in Scotts Valley. The first office was the conference room at the Best Western at 6020 Scotts Valley Drive, leased for 250 dollars a week before the team could pay for a park suite.
The idea was tested on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz. They bought a used Patsy Cline compact disc at Logos Books and mailed it through the downtown post office. The disc arrived intact. A videocassette would not have survived the same trip at a price they could charge.
An early working name was Kibble. The public site opened on 14 April 1998 with 925 titles for sale and rent by mail. The first DVD shipped was Beetlejuice.
The mechanism was a thin disc that could ride in a standard envelope, so a catalog did not need a store aisle or a late-fee counter.
The hotel still operates under the Best Western name. The pin is that public drive, not the later Los Gatos floors. The team soon moved to the Granite Creek business park across town.
Photo: Scotts Valley context, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons.
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