Netflix considers Canada to be a Third World country.
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1. The idea behind Netflix came in 1997 after the CEO was charged $40 for a late VHS copy of Apollo 13.
2. The CEO's great-grandfather, Alfred Lee Loomis, was instrumental in winning WWII. He anticipated the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and therefore protected his considerable wealth. His funds helped establish a laboratory that became a meeting place for the world's most successful scientists, including Albert Einstein. The space allowed the development of the radar technology that helped Allies successfully carry out the invasion of Normandy.
3. Netflix has been around longer than Google. Netflix was established as a subscription service in 1997. Google was founded in 1998.
4. In 2000, Netflix was offered to Blockbuster for $50 million. The now practically dead video rental company declined the offer. Netflix is currently worth $20 billion and is very much alive.
5. The company's revenue is estimated at $6 billion.
6. Netflix is available in nearly 50 countries.
7. The market with the highest growth is Latin America.
8. There is a record 57.4 million unique Netflix subscribers online (as of January 2015). Since one subscription allows several people to watch Netflix, the number of actual users is much bigger.
9. In the United States, for example, Netflix outranks cable TV with 33 million subscribers.
10. It's also the single largest contributor to Internet traffic in many countries. In the States, it amounts to almost one third during primetime.
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