Read hastings was created in 97 by americans, read hastings and mark randolph. They sent out d v d movies by mail, because what you used to do was go to the video store and pick it up. And they started sending it out by mail, first charging by the d v d, and then fairly quickly moved to a subscription model. The fact that he's even still the ceo, although it's the co ceo, is very unusual for a founder to be there more than 20 years later. So he's committed to this companyas is howi that.

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