Randolph had worked as a marketing director for Pure Software after Pure Atria acquired a company where Randolph worked.
Hastings, a computer scientist and mathematician, was a co-founder of Pure Software, which was acquired by Rational Software that year for $750 million, the then biggest acquisition in Silicon Valley history. Netflix was founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California. Fourth and current logo, used since 2014 Launch as a mail-based rental business (1997–2006) Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix and the first CEO of the company Reed Hastings, co-founder and Executive Chairman
